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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.
This monograph presents the topics in a compact and consistent
manner and can be used by students with a background in physics and
other natural sciences who wish to specialize in economics. It
explains how the growth of production is connected with advances in
technology, consumption of labour and energy and makes it possible
to analyse past and present social production systems and to build
scripts of future progress. The book is of interest to energy
specialists engaged in planning and analyzing the production and
consumption of energy carriers, and to economists wanting to know
how energy and technology affect economic growth. This third
edition has been substantially revised and three brand new chapters
have been added. Chapter 8 illustrates the robustness of the theory
with the aid of statistical historical data from the Russian
economy, while Chapter 12 is devoted to a reconstruction of the
global production activity in ancient times. Chapter 13 discusses
the principles of the organization of social production.
In this book the theory of social production is systematically
formulated in terms and concepts of classical political economy and
neo-classical economics. In this way the subject becomes accessible
not only to professional researchers in areas of the theory of
production and economic growth, but also to the educated reader who
is curious about the principles behind the functioning of a
national economy. The book can be considered as an introduction for
students with a background in physics, chemistry and engineering,
who wish to specialize in economics. It is explained how the growth
of production is connected with achievements in technological
consumption of labour and energy. The theory allows one to analyse
the past and the present of the social production system and to
build scripts of the future progress. The book could be interesting
for energy specialists who are engaged in planning and analysing
production and consumption of energy carriers and determining
energy policy, and for economists who want to know how energy and
technology are affecting economic growth.
I used the opportunity of this edition to correct some minor
mistakes and clarify, wherever it possible, exposition of the
theory in comparison with the previous edition of this book
(Kluwer, Dordrechtet cet, 2000). It provokes - largement of the
book, though I tried to present the modern theory of thermic motion
of long macromolecules in compact form. I have tried to accumulate
the common heritage and to take into account di?erent approaches in
the theory of dynamics of linear polymers, at least, to understand
and make clear the importance of various ideas for explanation of
relaxation phenomena in linear polymers, to present recent
development in the ?eld. The theory of non-equilibrium phenomena in
polymer systems is based on the fundamental principles of
statistical physics. However, the peculiarities of
thestructureandthebehaviourofthesystemsnecessitatetheimplementation
of special methods and heuristic models that are di?erent from
those for gases and solids, so that polymer dynamics has appeared
to be a special branch of physicsnow.
Themonographcontainsdiscussionsofthemainprinciplesofthe theoryof
slowrelaxationphenomena in linearpolymers, elaborated inthe last
decades. The basic model of a macromolecule, which allows us a
consistent explanation of di?erent relaxation phenomena (di?usion,
neutron scattering, viscoelasticity, optical birefringence),
remains to be a coarse-grained or be- spring model, considered in
di?erent environments: viscous, to describe the
behaviourofdilutesolutions, orviscoelastic,
todescribethebehaviourofboth weakly and strongly entangled system
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.
This monograph presents the topics in a compact and consistent
manner and can be used by students with a background in physics and
other natural sciences who wish to specialize in economics. It
explains how the growth of production is connected with advances in
technology, consumption of labour and energy and makes it possible
to analyse past and present social production systems and to build
scripts of future progress. The book is of interest to energy
specialists engaged in planning and analyzing the production and
consumption of energy carriers, and to economists wanting to know
how energy and technology affect economic growth. This third
edition has been substantially revised and three brand new chapters
have been added. Chapter 8 illustrates the robustness of the theory
with the aid of statistical historical data from the Russian
economy, while Chapter 12 is devoted to a reconstruction of the
global production activity in ancient times. Chapter 13 discusses
the principles of the organization of social production.
I used the opportunity of this edition to correct some minor
mistakes and clarify, wherever it possible, exposition of the
theory in comparison with the previous edition of this book
(Kluwer, Dordrechtet cet, 2000). It provokes - largement of the
book, though I tried to present the modern theory of thermic motion
of long macromolecules in compact form. I have tried to accumulate
the common heritage and to take into account di?erent approaches in
the theory of dynamics of linear polymers, at least, to understand
and make clear the importance of various ideas for explanation of
relaxation phenomena in linear polymers, to present recent
development in the ?eld. The theory of non-equilibrium phenomena in
polymer systems is based on the fundamental principles of
statistical physics. However, the peculiarities of
thestructureandthebehaviourofthesystemsnecessitatetheimplementation
of special methods and heuristic models that are di?erent from
those for gases and solids, so that polymer dynamics has appeared
to be a special branch of physicsnow.
Themonographcontainsdiscussionsofthemainprinciplesofthe theoryof
slowrelaxationphenomena in linearpolymers, elaborated inthe last
decades. The basic model of a macromolecule, which allows us a
consistent explanation of di?erent relaxation phenomena (di?usion,
neutron scattering, viscoelasticity, optical birefringence),
remains to be a coarse-grained or be- spring model, considered in
di?erent environments: viscous, to describe the
behaviourofdilutesolutions,orviscoelastic,todescribethebehaviourofboth
weakly and strongly entangled systems.
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