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Title:
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The second law of economics : energy, entropy, and the origins of wealth /
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Authors:
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Reiner Kümmel, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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Cham : Springer, 2011
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Series:
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Frontiers collection
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-1-4419-9364-9
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Format:
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xix, 293 p. / ill. (some col.) / 24 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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HB171
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Subjects:
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Business
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Economics
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Description:
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Contents note:
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Prologue: time travel with Abel. From the big bang to the sun -- Light on earth -- Ancient empires -- Wind power, gunpowder, and wood -- Industrial revolution -- Golden age -- Outlook -- Energy. Understanding the prime mover -- Sun and eath -- Amplifiers of muscles and brain -- Energy sevices -- Consumption and what is left -- Technological perspectives -- Appendix 1: basic forms of energy -- Appendix 2: energy units -- Entropy. No free lunch -- Equipartition, the toddler and entropy -- States of systems -- The way things change -- Arrow of change -- Entropy production and emissions -- Appendix: nonequilibrium thermodynamics and the second law -- Economy. Complementary perspectives on the economy -- Energy entropy, and the growth paradigm -- Preanalytic vision: the law of diminshing returns -- How technological constraints change economic equilibrium --The second law of economics -- Distribution of wealth -- Summary and discussion -- Appendix 1: maximizing profit -- Appendix 2: maximizing overall welfare -- Appendix 3: aggregating output and facotrs in physical terms -- Appendix 4: explicit constraint equations -- Appendix 5: empirical data of output and inputs -- Appendix 6: determining technology parameters -- Epilogue: decisions under uncertainty. Ethics -- Reason -- Glossary
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Format :
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In print
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