Robert Ayres (scientist)

Robert Ayres (scientist)

Robert Underwood Ayres (born June 29, 1932) is an American-born physicist and economist. His career has focused on the application of physical ideas, especially the laws of thermodynamics, to economics; a long-standing pioneering interest in material flows and transformations (industrial ecology or industrial metabolism) - a concept which he originated. His most recent work challenges the widely-held economic theory of growth.

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