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" Information, entropy, and progress : "
Robert U. Ayres
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BL
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639007
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Ayres, Robert U
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Information, entropy, and progress : : a new evolutionary paradigm /\ Robert U. Ayres
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Woodbury, NY :: AIP Press,, c1994
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xviii, 301 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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0883189119
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: 9780883189115
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Concepts, definitions and analogies -- Information and thermodynamics -- Physical evolution : from the universe to the earth -- Geological and biochemical evolution -- Biological evolution -- Evolution in human social systems -- Evolution in economic systems -- The economy as a self-organizing information-processing system -- Information added by materials processing -- Morphological information -- Labor as an information process -- Evolution, economics, and environmental imperatives
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Information theory
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Evolution
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Evolution (Biology)
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Economics
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330/.01/154
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Q360.A95 1994
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