ABSTRACT
The general principles of bioeconomics as originally developed by Georgescu-Roegen 1 are on the research agenda of the European Association for Bioeconomic Studies (EABS). 2 The agenda concerns the proper thermodynamic- and entropy-related arguments of these principles and their corresponding new epis-temology: the differentiation between arithmomorphic concepts (as used mostly in neoclassical mainstream economics) and a new, non-Hegelian, form of dialectic concepts. This approach can be characterized as the recent and perhaps best elaborated alternative in the history of economics to the (neoclassical) approach of “economics as physics”—Mirowski’s (1991) concise criticism of a false conception of theoretical economics). 3
