b'Georgescu-Roegen? Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, whose Economics is the all-time best-selling textbook on the subject, lauded him as a pioneer in mathematical economics, but that hardly does him justice. Georgescu-Roegen presaged the field of ecological economics and the work of Kenneth Boulding, Herman Daly, Hazel Henderson, Dennis Meadows and Dana Meadows. He wrote about Energy and Economic Myths, nesting economics inside physics. He integrated economics and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. He didnt stop there. He thought about myth in the broadest historical terms: Should we run out of some resources, we will always think up something, just as we have continuously done since the time of Pericles. Nothing, therefore, could ever stand in the way of an increasingly happier existence of the human species. One can hardly think of a more blunt form of linear thinking. . .Myths have always occupied a prominent role in the life of man. To be sure, to act in accord with a myth is the distinctive charac-teristic of man among all living beings. Many myths betray mans greatest folly, his inner compulsion to believe that he is above everything else in the actual universe and that his powers know no limits. . .We must therefore watch our step, as some have already warned us, so as not to substitute a greater but distant pollution for a local one. 20If we want to crack the code with respect to limits and pollution, were going to need more than technological cleverness. If we want to get beyond the mythic shortcomings of the Gaussian copula formula, all that it represents and all that it does not take into account, were going to need more than the deadly seriousness of economic multiplication and political division. 20 Energy and Economic Myths, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Southern Economic Journal, (Vol. 41, No. 3), January 197570'