Thermodynamic relationships between time, capital, and labour
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https://doi.org/10.15584/nsawg.2023.3.1Keywords:
time, capital, labour, thermodynamics, economic constantAbstract
In the theoretical achievements of economics, the past has left many insinuations, not always accurate terms and also controversies. This does not burden the scholars whose diligent efforts fell on the immature ground of general knowledge, in particular the lack of thermodynamics. The categories of capital, profit, labour are basic examples. There was also a lack of understanding of the nature of time. This issue was as if left to physicists, despite the fact that the use of present and future value was and is a significant achievement in economics and accounting. On the other hand, among those engaged in physics, there are divergences about time travel. The great idea of the economy as a game with nature with a non-zero positive sum has also not spread in economic theory, reinforcing the aspiration to belong to the natural sciences. Therefore, we take up the consideration of the capital-labour-time triad as an important basic element of economic knowledge. In our view, this correctly understood triad will correctly illuminate many economic issues and can form the hard core of a scientific program for improving economic and accounting theory. Thus, the epistemology of I. Lakatos defines the methodology of ongoing research, in which positive heuristics and empirical verification are the engine of scientific action.
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