Cockshott, P. and Zachariah, D. (2014) Conservation laws, financial entropy and the Eurozone Crisis. Economics, 8(2014-5), (doi: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2014-5)
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Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2014-5
Abstract
The article starts by examining the idea of conservation laws as applied to market economies. It formulates a measure of financial entropy and gives numerical simula-tions indicating that this tends to rise. We discuss an analogue for free energy released during this process. The concepts of real and symbolic appropriation are introduced as a means to analyse debt and taxation. We then examine the conflict between the conservation laws that apply to commodity exchange with the exponential growth implied by capital accumulation and how these have necessitated a sequence of evolutionary forms for money, and go on to present a simple stochastic model for the formation of rates of interest and a model for the time evolution of the rate of profit.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Cockshott, Dr William |
Authors: | Cockshott, P., and Zachariah, D. |
College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science |
Journal Name: | Economics |
Publisher: | Universitaet Kiel, Institut fuer Weltwirtschaft |
ISSN: | 1864-6042 |
ISSN (Online): | 1864-6042 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2014 The Authors |
First Published: | First published in Economics 8(2014-5) |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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