2021: Fiftieth anniversary of The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, masterpiece of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

2021 marks exactly half a century since the publication of a book whose importance and depth in diagnosing the problems of late modernity have only increased since its release. In the field of social sciences, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 's seminal work , *The Law of Entropy and the Economic Process *, made a decisive contribution to a new perspective in the analysis of economic phenomena: what he called bioeconomics, which has since developed into ecological economics.

But beyond his scientific contributions, and without abandoning the cold objectivity that springs from thermodynamic considerations of economics, Georgescu-Roegen's work represented a tremendous intellectual upheaval in the realm of culture, ideas, and the ways of life that accompanied fossil fuel capitalism. * The Entropy Law and the Economic Process* warned of the problem of resource depletion and the thermodynamic unsustainability of an economic system that demands perpetual growth, but it also confronted us with the moral implications that we would sooner or later face if we continued down the path the world has been following ever since.

What in 1971 was a dangerous future horizon, in 2021 has become the most serious problem that our time has to address. TEL+50/ Transdisciplinary readings It is a series of four days of events in four different locations that, this autumn, will analyze, evaluate, and disseminate the legacy of the great Romanian economist based in the US. It will take place in Madrid, 19 and 20 for October, Círculo de Bellas ArtesIn Valencia, October 26 and 27, La Nau. In Zaragoza, November 2 and 3, Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Zaragoza. And in Bilbao, November 9 and 10, Faculty of Economic Sciences of the UPV/EHU.

CBA Program:

October 19, 18 to 21 pm: Jacques Grinevald, Emilio Santiago Muino, Jaime Vindel

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Part 2:

October 20, 18 to 21 pm: José Manuel Naredo, Margarita Mediavilla, Luis Arenas

These conferences are part of two university research projects: the first, ECONOMIC RATIONALITY, POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND GLOBALIZATION: TOWARDS A NEW COSMOPOLITAN RATIONALITY, PID2019-109252RB-I00. The second is ECOLOGICAL HUMANITIES AND ECO-SOCIAL TRANSITIONS. ETHICAL, AESTHETIC AND PEDAGOGICAL PROPOSALS FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE, with reference PID2019-107757RB-I00.