Economies Evolve by Energy Dispersal

Economic activity can be regarded as an evolutionary process governed by the 2nd law of thermodynamics. The universal law, when formulated locally as an equation of motion, reveals that a growing economy develops functional machinery and organizes hierarchically in such a way as to tend to equalize...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stanley Salthe, Arto Annila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-10-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/11/4/606/