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dc.contributor.authorRoels, J.A
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-26 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T15:19:39Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T15:19:39Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier413210
dc.identifierOCN: 786037897en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34547
dc.description.abstractThe firms and markets of today's complex socio-economic system developed in a spontaneous process termed evolution, in just the same way as the universe, the solar system, the Earth and all that lives upon it. Darwin's theory of evolution clearly demonstrated that evolution involved increasing organization. As we began to explore the molecular basis of life and its evolution, it became equally clear that it depended on the processing and communication of information. This book develops a consistent theory of evolution in its wider sense, examining the information based laws and forces that drive it. Exploring subjects as diverse as economics and the theories of thermodynamics, the author revisits the paradox of the apparent conflict between the laws of thermodynamics and evolution to arrive at a systems theory, tracing a continuous line of evolving information sets that connect the Big-Bang to the firms and markets of our current socio-economic system.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on societyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PG Astronomy, space and time::PGK Cosmology and the universeen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHH Thermodynamics and heaten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolutionen_US
dc.subject.otherindustrial evolution
dc.subject.otherthermodynamics
dc.subject.otherhuman evolution
dc.subject.othereconomic theory
dc.subject.othersocio-economic system
dc.subject.otherEntropy
dc.subject.otherInformation set (game theory)
dc.subject.otherMacroscopic scale
dc.titleThe Origin and the Evolution of Firms
dc.title.alternativeInformation as a Driving Force
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_413210
oapen.relation.isPublishedByca51bc3b-b360-460e-a298-98647ae3f3f6
oapen.collectionOAPEN-NL
oapen.imprintDelft University Press
oapen.pages232
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Entropy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy; Evolution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution; Information set (game theory) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_set_(game_theory); Macroscopic scale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroscopic_scale
oapen.identifier.ocn786037897


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