Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization
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...
Main Author: | Ayres, Robert (Author) |
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Corporate Author: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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Series: | The Frontiers Collection,
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Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
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