Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ayres, Robert (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: The Frontiers Collection,
• Θέματα: Physics.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Thermodynamics.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Economics.; Natural resources.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Economic Systems.; Natural Resource Economics.

This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary “progress”. For the modern economy, natural wealth consists of complex physical structures of condensed (“frozen”) energy – mass - maintained in the earth’s crust far from thermodynamic equilibrium. How...