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Preliminary Inventory of the Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Papers, 1944-1994

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Descriptive Summary

Title
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Papers, 1944-1994
Creator
Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas
Extent
44 Linear Feet
33002 Items
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
However, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.
Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library received the Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen papers as a gift in 1995 and 2000.
Processing Information
Processed by Paula Jeannet Mangiafico and Alice Poffinberger
Completed February 27, 1997 and March 26, 2001
Encoded by Alice Poffinberger
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may have not been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note

Noted economist and professor at Vanderbilt University; formerly from Romania.

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Collection Overview

The original accession (33000 items, dated 1944-1994) includes correspondence, research and writings, subject files, teaching materials, and autobiographical writings documenting the life and career of economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1994). Correspondents include the economists Joseph Schumpeter (under whom he studied at Harvard) and Friedrich von Hayek. Topics include analytical economics, value theory and consumer behavior, bio-economics, time and economic change, entropy and its application to economics, agricultural economics, and the teaching of economics. Some materials are in Russian or Romanian. There are a few photographs of Georgescu-Roegen.
Typed transcripts and other documents reveal details concerning political conditions in Romania during the period of the provisional government and the Armistice trials following World War II (1944-1945). During this period Georgescu-Roegen served the new government in various capacities before he fled the country with his wife in 1948. The accession also includes about 40 audio tape (reel-to-reel) recordings. (95-025)
The addition to the collection (2 items, dated 1950-1975), includes class notes by students in Georgescu-Roegen's course, "Introduction to Mathematical Economics," spring 1950, at Vanderbilt and an audio tape recording (reel-to-reel) of dinner talks given on October 24, 1975, during a two-day conference at Vanderbilt recognizing Georgescu-Roegen's accomplishments. Speakers included Chancellor Heard of Vanderbilt and economists Paul Samuelson and Joseph Spengler. (00-425)
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Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
List of Series in Collection
Accession 95-025
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Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection

Accession 95-025

Box 1
Correspondence by personal name, 1960s-1980s, A-E
"Fan Mail," 1950s-1980s
Box 2
Correspondence by personal name, 1960s-1980s, F-M.
Box 3
Correspondence by personal name, 1960s-1980s, M-Z
Photographs
Box 4
Correspondence, Vanderbilt and Romania
Personal correspondence
"Selected older or important letters," (Schumpeter, Hayek, etc.)
Box 5
Correspondence by organizations, 1960s-1980s, A-W.
Box 6
Correspondence by subject, 1960s-1990s (some alphabetical arrangement).
Box 7
Correspondence and other materials by place-name, 1960s-1990s, A-W.
Box 8
Correspondence, 1950s-1980s, C-S
Various correspondence dated by years, 1986-1994
Place-name files (Princeton, Harvard, Sao Paolo), 1960s-1970s
Box 9
Correspondence
Articles
Invitations
Box 10
Autobiographical writings
My Life Philosophy
Writings by NGR (typescripts)
Box 11
Correspondence
Articles
Box 12
Articles (chiefly by other authors)
Box 13
Publications and periodicals files
Addresses
Curriculum vitae files
Box 14
Lectures, statistics
Free Europe Handbook (on Romania)
Russian Research Center, Harvard, 1949
Research grant files
Box 15
Writings on Romania by NGR and others
Typed transcripts and copies of Romanian Armistice trials and other meetings related to provisional government (1944-1945)
Maps
Box 16
Writings: Romania
Box 17
Writings: Romania, Basarabia
Writings: Time and evolution; time and change; time in economics; analytical economics; theory and economic reality; plant, firm, industry; value theory and the consumer's behavior; value theory and the consumer's behavior; logical and empirical foundations fo economic development (ch. 1-7)
Various notes
Crivelli on NGR, 1987
Statistics files
Box 18
Statistics and econometrics files
Tests and exams on economic theory
Box 19
Writings: Drafts and notes on peasant economy
Manuscript fragments
Box 20
Notes: Psychology and economics and other topics
Writings: Utility, Gossen, economy and ethics, bioeconomics and ethics, man and production, the energetic theory of economic value, satiety
Box 21
Phyllis Jenkin
Jeremy Rifkin
Gossen
Box 22
Writings: Structural unemployment, Romania, Basarabia
Box 23
Writings by other authors [often related to NGR's works, with letters to him]
Box 24
Writings and notes by NGR: Romania, Atlanta, Milano
Matzner, Egon
Box 25
Writings by NGR
Box 26
Writings by NGR
Box 27
Notebooks containing published writings by NGR in chronological order
Box 28
Notebooks containing articles about NGR and review of his works
Box 29
Miscellaneous correspondence and subject files (Koide, Myernik, etc.)
Audiotapes from Vanderbilt office [possibly lectures by NGR]
Box 30
Audiotapes from Vanderbilt office [possibly lectures by NGR]