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Energy Conversion and Management, Vol.40, No.10, 1009-1019, 1999
Endoreversible thermodynamics versus economics
Endoreversible thermodynamics is a useful subset of irreversible thermodynamics, as it allows gaining physical insight in steady state processes, away from equilibrium. As economic activities are nonequilibrium processes, we investigate how endoreversible models can be applied to economic systems. We investigate whether extensive quantities (like energy, matter and entropy) and intensive quantities (like temperature and chemical potential) in physics have counterparts in economics.
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