Entropy and its misuse, I. Energy, free and otherwise

Gillett, Stephen L.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.12.020

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“…Kåberger and Månsson, 2001;Gillett, 2006). The standard views neglect the Statistical Mechanics approach to entropy, which had been eschewed by Georgescu-Roegen in the first place, too (resulting into harsh assessments of his work by leading physicists in the field, see Jaynes, 1982).…”

Section: Closing the Ontological Framework: Growth And Maximum Entropmentioning

confidence: 98%

Energy, growth, and evolution: Towards a naturalistic ontology of economics

Herrmann‐Pillath

2015

Ecological Economics

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Section: Closing the Ontological Framework: Growth And Maximum Entropmentioning

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Energy, growth, and evolution: Towards a naturalistic ontology of economics

Herrmann‐Pillath

2015

Ecological Economics

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“…For now though, the breadth of the problem can be appreciated by considering some of the sources that have been found to refer to or make use of the second law in ways that are inconsistent with the current best understanding of this science. These include: in the popular or transdisciplinary scientific 1 literature Capra [7], Georgescu-Roegen [15], Rifkin [40], Prigogine and Stengers [39], Daly [11], Hawking [17] and Shro¨dinger [43]; in the journal Ecological Economics, Gillet [16], Lozada [35], Krysiak [25], Ayres [1] and Ka˚berger and Ma˚nsson [21]; in recent issues of Futures, Fricker [13], Lawn [34] and Yea [52]; in the Journal of Futures Studies, Viik [50]; in the journal World Futures, Min [36], Brier [5], Knyazeva [23], Naveh [38], Robertson [41], Ceruti and Pievani [8], Colamonico [9], Montecucco [37] and Sahtouris [42]; elsewhere in futuresspecific literature, Bell [2] and Jones [19,20].…”

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Thermodynamics, entropy and disorder in futures studies

Floyd

2007

Futures

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“…Gillett 2006 vs. Lozada 2006). Georgescu-Roegen remains very influential in both his achievements and his mistakes.…”

Section: The Problem Of the Contextuality Of Entropy: Fertile Ground mentioning

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The evolutionary approach to entropy: Reconciling Georgescu-Roegen's natural philosophy with the maximum entropy framework

Herrmann‐Pillath

2011

Ecological Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIn Georgescu-Roegen's classical, though controversial discussion of entropy in relation to economics, the dualism of mechanical and subjective time plays a pivotal role. I argue that this fundamental distinction also inheres modern approaches to maximum entropy. Following Searle, I introduce the ontological dualism of observer independent and observer relative facts, and show that the notion of entropy also manifests this dualism, in the sense of the contextuality of measurements in experimental settings. Extending on the notion of observer relativity, I argue that the MaxEnt principle can be generalized into a framework of analyzing the evolution of (biological, technological etc.) functions under natural selection, if functions are equated with inference devices. Then, observer relativity is function relativity. In hierarchical evolutionary systems, this corresponds to the Maximum Entropy Production Principle, in the sense that functional evolution approximates gradients of maximum dissipation of energy. Against this background, the Georgescu-Roegen dualism of time translates into the dualism of observer independent entropy, which is the object of MEPP, and observer relative entropy, which is the object of MaxEnt. Both are two aspects under which evolution in general and economic evolution in particular can be analyzed.

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Entropy and its misuse, I. Energy, free and otherwise

Cited by 20 publications

References 7 publications

Energy, growth, and evolution: Towards a naturalistic ontology of economics

Energy, growth, and evolution: Towards a naturalistic ontology of economics

Thermodynamics, entropy and disorder in futures studies

The evolutionary approach to entropy: Reconciling Georgescu-Roegen's natural philosophy with the maximum entropy framework

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