Epstein Secrets

ng entropic systems should also remove many of the theoretical problems associated with imaginary Walrasian auctioneers and other such difficulties. Foley has made very significant inroads into this way of carrying out pricing [Foley 1996a, 1996b, 1999, 2002]. 214 EFTA00625342 All of the above for

nd GLV distributions will be found to give general and stable descriptions of many complex systems that have hitherto been seen as insoluble. What Dewar, Levy and Solomon's systems consist of are three critical elements; a source, a sink, and some sort of self-limiting behaviour. This model is poten

is simply a complicated and interesting sub-section of the MEP function of the earth as a whole. 202 EFTA00625330 Returning to the mathematics, Dewar [Dewar 2005] has produced a seminal paper that derives maximum entropy production from the first principles of information theory and simple maximum

d considerable effort to applying the correct mathematics, statistical mechanics, to economics. Although primarily modelled in a static environment, Foley's work is profoundly insightful, and demonstrates very clearly how statistical mechanical approaches are more powerful than utility based approache

appears not to have percolated into the general physics community despite appearing to have general applicability. The ideas of Paltridge, Lorenz, Dewar and others, along with the mathematical techniques of Levy & Solomon, may not be familiar to many physicists, and I believe may be very powerful in

ure papers and vice-versa. The main reason for adopting classical economics was almost accidental. I had previously rejected the dabblings of both Foley and Wright into Marxian economics as misguided foolishness. I was wrong, they were right. My first reason for rejecting Marxian economics was becau

ormation approach is more obvious mathematically, but like quantum mechanics, somehow seems to imply the necessary presence of an outside observer. Dewar's work, discussed in section 7.3 below may shed some light on this discussion. Both Atkins's and Ben-Naim's books are short and well written, and I