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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, an Uncommon card
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 182
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 182 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
He is best known today for his ____ magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, in which he argued that all natural resources are irreversibly degraded when put to use in economic activity.
Answer
1970s. He is best known today for his 1971 magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, in which he argued that all natural resources are irreversibly degraded when put to use in economic activity. From the Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Franciscus Patricius. Franciscus Patricius 92 · Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 89 · Auriga 85 · Magnetosphere of Jupiter 82 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Consumer behaviour. Consumer behaviour 53,000 · Magnetosphere of Jupiter 40,000 · Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 19,000 · Anania Shirakatsi 6,800 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known today for his 1971 magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, in which he argued that all natural resources are irreversibly degraded when put to use in economic activity.
- A progenitor and a paradigm founder in economics, Georgescu-Roegen's work was decisive for the establishing of ecological economics as an independent academic sub-discipline in economics.
- In the history of economic thought, Georgescu-Roegen was the first economist of some standing to theorise on the premise that all of earth's mineral resources will eventually be exhausted at some indeterminate future point.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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