‘Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy’ by Daniela Russ reviewed by Andrzej Frelek (opens in new tab)

The concept of energy is omnipresent in theoretical writing on the relationship between society and nature. Historically, for some time it even served as the primary means of approaching the problem in economic theory, leading one of the pioneers of ecological economics, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, to critique the energy analysis school for its blindness to the limits imposed by the materiality of nature (Georgescu-Roegen 1979). Georgescu-Roegen put forward a pioneering critique of the energy ...