Guest Lecture : Marco Vianna Franco

Energetics in Central European Economic Though

Marco Vianna Franco est historien et philosophe de l'économie écologique.  Il est actuellement chercheur post-doctoral Marie Skolodowska/EUTOPIA-SIF au sein de CY Cergy Paris Université et accueilli par le centre de recherche AGORA.

Knowledge on how energy flows shape and condition social systems and, thus, bear implications to economic issues, dates back at least to the late nineteenth century. Within German-speaking scholarship, there is a long but largely forgotten intellectual tradition bridging the fields of thermodynamics and political economy in a quest to understand how biophysical laws and constraints are intertwined with modes of social organization and provisioning processes. In this guest lecture, I will outline how the rising field of energetics was then assimilated into strands of economic theory in Central Europe (1880s-1930s). Topics such as economic value, resource accounting, and social reform will be presented as key questions in the works of scholarly figures such as Eduard Sacher, Johann Žmavc, and Josef Popper-Lynkeus. Offering a thorough theoretical framework to reconcile the natural and social sciences, these lesser-known thinkers and their ideas merit renewed attention today, not least given their potential to inform contemporary debates in fields such as ecological economics.

Date: 30 Janvier 2024 de 14:00 à 15:30

La guest lecture hybride est organisée en présence dans la salle de réunion H008 de la MIR à Neuville-sur-Oise et à distance sur Zoom.

Pour participer à la guest lecture à distance, connectez-vous sur Zoom : https://cyu-fr.zoom.us/j/91066250542
ID réunion : 910 6625 0542

La vidéo sera publiée sur la chaîne YouTube de CYAS