Robert Ayres (scientist)

Robert Underwood Ayres
Born(1932-06-29)June 29, 1932
DiedOctober 23, 2023(2023-10-23) (aged 91)
France
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
University of Maryland
King's College London
Scientific career
FieldsIndustrial ecology
Environmental economics
InstitutionsHudson Institute
Carnegie-Mellon University
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
INSEAD
Chalmers Institute of Technology

Robert Underwood Ayres (June 29, 1932 – October 23, 2023) was an American-born physicist and economist. His career 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.[1] His most recent work challenged the widely held economic theory of growth.

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