Energetics

Robert U. Ayres ()
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Chapter Chapter 11 in The History and Future of Economics, 2023, pp 147-160 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract None of the early economists knew enough about physics to realize that muscular work by humans and horses, power from a water wheel or a windmill, heat from a fire and power from a steam engine, were all examples of a single process: performing physical “work”, e.g. overcoming inertia.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26208-1_11

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