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Scarcity's Ways: The Origins of Capital - A Critical Essay on Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Economics (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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Scarcity's Ways: The Origins of Capital - A Critical Essay on Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Economics (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 176
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invoking the fluctuation-dissipation theorems of Einstein and 2
more recently those of Callen and Kubo in order to get to
manageable results. In this manner, great strides have been made in
the development of the many-body problem without reaching the
necessity to legitimize thermodynamics. Ther modynamics and
statistical mechanics were used successful ly as bridges and guides
to get the new ideas to conform to the macroscopic experiences
(measurements). Hence the dis 3 interest of theoreticians. The
frustration in attracting the at tention of the working physicists
on this problem is vividly described in Carnap's (1978) account on
the reception of his ideas and efforts at the Institute of Advanced
Studies at Prin ceton where he worked on the Two Essays on Entropy;
it al most amounted, he thought, to a conspiracy of silence. The
priorities of theoretical physicists remain with the puzzles and
the cranking at hand: Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and "creation and
annihilation" physics, solid state physics, - to mention only a few
research areas - command the attention of those working on the
research frontiers. Thermodynamics is taken for granted and is
thought to be an almost depleted research area. Whatever the
subterfuges, the hand-waving arguments, the paedagogical red
herrings, the procedures work and nothing can be gained by
allocating intellectual re sources to resolve ambiguities with few,
if any, expected rewards. Down deep, all believe that the
regularization of the field will one day be accomplished."
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