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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Risk Institute, Trieste- Geneva
2012-04-01
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Series: | Cadmus |
Online Access: | http://www.cadmusjournal.org/article/issue-4/entropy-and-economics |