Beschreibung:
This book, now in its third edition, explores how human populations grow, based on their creative abilities. To reconsider the theory of economic growth from a physicist's perspective, the book analyses the concepts of value and utility and their relationship to thermodynamic concepts. This approach allows the author to include characteristics of technology in descriptions of development and to formulate a phenomenological (macroeconomic, no-price fluctuations are discussed) theory of production as a set of evolutionary equations in one-sector and multi-sector approximations. The theory is proved to be useful for describing both national economies and global production in ancient times.
Preface.- 1 Introduction: The Value-Creating Factors.- 2 Empirical Foundation of Econodynamics.- 3 Monetary Side of Social Production.- 4 Many-Sector Approach to Production System.- 5 Production Factors and Technology.- 6 Production of Value.- 7 Estimation of Parameters of Production Processes.- 8 Social Production in Russia.- 9 Dynamics of Production in Many-Sector Approach.- 10 Mechanism of Social Estimation of Value.- 11 Value from a Physicist's Point of View.- 12 The Global Dynamics.- 13 Principles of Organization of the National Economy.- Appendices.- Index.