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name: thinker-nicholas-georgescu-roegen
description: Apply the Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen: Entropy and the Economic Process article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen: Entropy and the Economic Process

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-nicholas-georgescu-roegen). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-nicholas-georgescu-roegen.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-nicholas-georgescu-roegen/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

What Georgescu-Roegen Saw Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen observed that standard economic models treat production as a reversible mechanical cycle. He saw instead a one-way physical transformation. Matter and energy enter the economy in ordered, 

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-nicholas-georgescu-roegen
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-nicholas-georgescu-roegen
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-nicholas-georgescu-roegen/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-nicholas-georgescu-roegen/revisions
