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oapen-20.500.12657-345472021-11-09T07:55:29Z The Origin and the Evolution of Firms Roels, J.A industrial evolution thermodynamics human evolution economic theory socio-economic system Entropy Information set (game theory) Macroscopic scale bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory & philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PG Astronomy, space & time::PGK Cosmology & the universe bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics::PHH Thermodynamics & heat bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolution The firms and markets of today's complex socio-economic system developed in a spontaneous process termed evolution, in just the same way as the universe, the solar system, the Earth and all that lives upon it. Darwin's theory of evolution clearly demonstrated that evolution involved increasing organization. As we began to explore the molecular basis of life and its evolution, it became equally clear that it depended on the processing and communication of information. This book develops a consistent theory of evolution in its wider sense, examining the information based laws and forces that drive it. Exploring subjects as diverse as economics and the theories of thermodynamics, the author revisits the paradox of the apparent conflict between the laws of thermodynamics and evolution to arrive at a systems theory, tracing a continuous line of evolving information sets that connect the Big-Bang to the firms and markets of our current socio-economic system. 2012-12-31 23:55:55 2018-06-26 00:00:00 2020-04-01T15:19:39Z 2020-04-01T15:19:39Z 2012 book 413210 OCN: 786037897 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34547 eng application/pdf n/a 413210.pdf http://www.iospress.nl/book/the-origin-and-the-evolution-of-firms/ IOS Press Delft University Press 10.26530/OAPEN_413210 10.26530/OAPEN_413210 ca51bc3b-b360-460e-a298-98647ae3f3f6 OAPEN-NL Delft University Press 232 open access
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The firms and markets of today's complex socio-economic system developed in a spontaneous process termed evolution, in just the same way as the universe, the solar system, the Earth and all that lives upon it. Darwin's theory of evolution clearly demonstrated that evolution involved increasing organization. As we began to explore the molecular basis of life and its evolution, it became equally clear that it depended on the processing and communication of information. This book develops a consistent theory of evolution in its wider sense, examining the information based laws and forces that drive it. Exploring subjects as diverse as economics and the theories of thermodynamics, the author revisits the paradox of the apparent conflict between the laws of thermodynamics and evolution to arrive at a systems theory, tracing a continuous line of evolving information sets that connect the Big-Bang to the firms and markets of our current socio-economic system.
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