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This is an exploratory critical essay on the Origins of Capital and the Foundations of Thermodynamics. In economics the existence of capital is taken for granted yet it is difficult to establish for it a robust definition. Capital theory addresses the coupling of the present with the future; as such it does not deal with its own history, evolution or its origins. The concern is the (discounted) future rather than the historical or even prehistorical past; at best, Hesiod's economy in his Works and Days marks the beginning of economic history. Yet, in its generic form, capital is but a physical or biological engine that processes materials and transforms energy in an environment of thermal non-equilibrium. The objective is to show the importance of capital in the comprehension of thermodynamics. I argue that the idea of scarcity as the fountain of history and its concomitant concept of value must be incorporated in the substance of thermodynamics and the meaning of measurement; this necessitates some excursions into the territory of economics with a review of capital theory, of evoluationary biology and the origins of life, and of the received ideas on thermodynamics. To discuss measurement - a long-standing quandary and the quintessential quantum problem - for lack of a better approach a formal hybrid pragmatist's outlook is retained in the form of virtual Cartesian dualism. Audience: This work will be of interest to historians and philosophers of science and economics, and engineering thermodynamicists.

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9789048149193
ISBN (ISBN-10): 9048149193
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Publishing year: 2010
Publisher: Springer Netherlands Core >1 >T
244 Pages
Weight: 0,358 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

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90-481-4919-3, 978-90-481-4919-3
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Book author: carnap, callen, kubo
Book title: history thermodynamics, both ways the only way want, capital, scarcity, history mechanics, statistical mechanics

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Author: M.S. Macrakis
Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science; Scarcity’s Ways: The Origins of Capital - A Critical Essay on Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Economics
Publisher: Springer; Springer Netherland
230 Pages
Publishing year: 2010-12-09
Dordrecht; NL
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Language: English
106,99 € (DE)
109,99 € (AT)
118,00 CHF (CH)
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X, 230 p.

BC; Hardcover, Softcover / Geschichte; Geschichte; Verstehen; Economic history; economics; equilibrium; evolution; science; thermodynamics; History; Quantitative Economics; Physical Chemistry; Philosophy of Biology; Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie; Wirtschaftstheorie und -philosophie; Physikalische Chemie; Philosophie; Biologie, Biowissenschaften; BB; EA

I Preface & Introduction.- II Economics.- III Biology.- IV Thermodynamics (??CS), Statistical Mechanics, and Capital.- V Thermodynamics (??CS), Work, and Capital.- VI Summary and Conclusions.- VII Appendices.- VIII Bibliography.

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