Beschreibung:
This article aims to rediscover a relatively unknown author to the general public, Slavcho Zagorov, and to revive his ideas. Zagorov was a Bulgarian economist and statistician whose main works date back to 1954 and are mainly devoted to the concept of energy flows in the economy and human metabolism explained through the prism of thermodynamics. His work and career are reminiscent of another Balkan economist, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Criticizing mainstream economic approach to national income in terms of "value", he developes a new approach of "national income movement". According to Zagorov, national income is a "movement of energy," which he calculates in terms of primary energy sources. Hence, the energy approach provides a new dimension to the productivity of the national economy. Finally, it brings to light a mathematical relationship between utility and energy