Georgescu-Roegen: A complex individual It is difficult to do justice to a figure like Georgescu-Roegen, as his legacy is both profound and complicated, and his scholarly work arcane and difficult. Georgescu-Roegen is famously remembered as the entropy-pessimist, a scholar, who in attempting to reimagine economics from a physical […]
On February 15th, Laval University made history by becoming the first university in Canada to commit to divest from all fossil fuel companies. Laval University’s administration agreed to take a stand against the industry after only four months of pressure from the student association ULaval Sans Fossiles. […]
“Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it.” (Marx 1845, Thesis 11, pg.8) Marx practiced what he preached. His aim was to provide the tools for a revolution he saw as inevitable. Although he came from a middle class background, […]
Prelude: Envisioning a Sustainable World. As we move into the political realities of 2017, I have been thinking long and hard about this powerful talk – Envisioning a Sustainable World – that Donella Meadows gave during the International Society for Ecological Economics meeting in 1994. What I find […]
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