Correspondence, 1930s-1990s

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Georgescu-Roegen maintained an extensive correspondence not only with leading economists, but also physicists, engineers, and statisticians. There is correspondence with Wassily Leontief, Joseph Schumpeter, Paul Samuelson, Karl Pearson, and Friedrich Hayek. There is extensive fan mail from people of various professions responding to his The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971) and Entropy: A New World View (1980), which found resonance with broader environmentalist and anti-growth sentiments. Institutional correspondence includes not only funding agencies but also work for many arms of the US government (for instance, USAID, the CIA, the Department of Energy, various Senate committees, and Brookhaven National Laboratory) and public intellectual platforms like the Club of Rome. Organized into four subseries: Name Files, Alphabetical Files, Assorted General Correspondence, and Romanian Correspondence.

Editorial correspondence from his work for Econometrica is filed in the Econometrica series.

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