Entropy and Economics

In this essay, human society is regarded as a “superorganism”, analogous to colonies of social insects. The digestive system of the human superorganism is the global economy, which ingests both free energy and resources, and later excretes them in a degraded form. This process involves an increase i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John Scales Avery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Risk Institute, Trieste- Geneva 2012-04-01
Series:Cadmus
Online Access:http://www.cadmusjournal.org/article/issue-4/entropy-and-economics