NICHOLAS GEORGESCU – ROENGEN 110 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF THE FAMOUS ROMANIAN
NICHOLAS GEORGESCU – ROENGEN 110 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF THE FAMOUS ROMANIAN

Summary/Abstract: On February 4th 2016 we celebrated 110 years since the birth of the greatest Romanian economist until the present. Son of an officer, he graduated the military high school from Dealu Monastery. Further, he attended the courses of the Faculty of Mathematics from Bucharest. Eminent pupil and student, he obtains a scholarship for a PhD in statistics at Sorbona. He works a period in London with Karl Pearson, the founder of mathematical statistics. He also benefits from Rockefeller scholarship and he is co-opted in the team of Professor Schumpeter from Harvard University from which famous names in the field were part of, such as Leontief, Lange, Samuelson. Returned in the country, he receives different responsibility positions in specialized bodies. In 1948 he has to leave the country and immigrates permanently to the USA. He visited Romania in 1971 and 1994. Returned to the USA, he dies on October 30th 1994. Roegen’s entire work was published in Romania and in the Romanian language in a form supervised by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen at the Expert Publishing House and co-ordinated by a remarkable editor, Professor Valeriu Ioan-Franc. The eleven volumes of the series are included in the National Bank of Romania Library Collection and were printed between 1997 and 2010

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