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Social Thermodynamics 2.0

Physics and Society 2024-12-10 v9 Other Condensed Matter Popular Physics

Abstract

Trailing the modern ideas of sociophysics, a minimalistic thermodynamic model of society is proposed, which consists of three social ingredients: people, economy, and entropy. Employing the universal van der Waals equation of state, many important relationships are discovered, including laws of econophysics. A paramount finding is that the Second Law of thermodynamics governs irreversible social evolution, revealing the power of social liberty and economic freedom.

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@article{arxiv.2307.05984,
  title  = {Social Thermodynamics 2.0},
  author = {Roumen Tsekov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05984},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

The paper is dedicated to Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Josiah W. Gibbs (1839-1903)

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