In hmolscience, Kozo Mayumi (1954-), or 眞弓浩三 (Japanese), is a Japanese applied economist, a student of Romanian mathematician Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and his material entropy hypothesis, notable, in ecological economics, for extending Georgescu-Roegen’s theories on entropy in the study of energy analysis. [1] Topics of Mayumi’s include dissipative systems models of socioeconomic systems (1997), pseudo measures of entropy, exosomatic energy metabolism of China (2007), among others. [2]

Education
Mayumi completed his MS in engineering from Kyoto University in 1979, a second MA from Vanderbilt University in 1988 in economics, working under Georgescu-Roegen, with a thesis on “Land: Ecological and Economic Achilles’ Heel”, and a PhD from Kyoto University, with a dissertation on “Studies on Georgescu-Roegen’s Bioeconomic Paradigm”, from the Graduate school of Engineering at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics. In more detail, from 1984 to 1988, Mayumi studied Bioeconomics at the Department of Economics of Vanderbilt University under the supervision of Romanian mathematician Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Mayumi has been working in the areas of energy analysis, ecological economics, and complex hierarch theory. He is currently a professor at the University of Tokushima.

References
1. (a) Howarth, Richard B. (2002). “The Origin of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen by Kozo Mayumi London” (abstract), Land Economics, 78(4): 624-26.
(b) Mayumi, Kozo. (2001). The Origins of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen. London: Routledge.
2. EconPapers: Kozo Mayumi – EconPapers.Repec.org.

Further reading
● Peet, John. (2002). “Book Review: The Origins of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen”, Ecological Economics, 42: 493-502.
● Friend, Anthony M. (2004). “Book Review: The Origins of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen”, Review of Radical Political Economics, (pgs. 437-41). Summer.
● Mayumi, Kozo and Giampietro, Mario. (2004). Ch. 5: “Entropy in Ecological Economics” (pgs. 80-101) in Modelling in Ecological Economics by John Proops and Paul Safonov. Edward Elgar Publishing.
● Gowdy, John. (2007). “Book Review: The Origins of Ecological Economics: the Bioeconomics of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen”, Economica, (pgs. 180-81). Feb.
● Giampietro, Mario and Mayumi, Kozo. (2009). The Biofuel Delusion: the Fallacy of Large Scale Agro-Biofuels Production. Earthscan.

● Glucina, Mark D. and Mayumi, Kozo. (2010). “Connecting Thermodynamics and Economics: Well-lit Roads and Burned Bridges” (abs), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1185:11-29, Ecological Economics Reviews, Jan.

● Mayumi, Kozo and Giampietro, Mario. (2018). “Money as the Potential Cause of the Tragedy of the Commons” (Ѻ), Romanian Journal of Economic Forcasting, XXI(2), 151-56.

External links
● Kozo Mayumi – Contributor: Encyclopedia of Earth.
● Mayumi, Kozo (1954-) – WorldCat Identities.