The Paradox of Economy

(Temporary Translation)

We are so taken by our culture that hardly superficial we pause to reflect on things that we all too discounted.
When dealing with money or economy we are used to be regarded as abstract sizes. Yes, subject to the laws of finance, but all too abstract.
Have you ever wondered what is really the money? I know that now go searching for a good dictionary possibly give me your definition.
Money is an economic tool, which can take over as:
A medium of exchange, unit of account for dilazionati payments and a store of value.
We are still thinking superficially.
Try to give you a different definition, but first we have to make considerations.
When the apple tree produces a fruit and I sell them at market revenue an amount in cash. If we reflect a little 'money that is the energy equivalent of the amount of work facts (from the sun, from, from the ground, by the farmer, etc..) To produce my apple. This value is then multiplied by a factor, we could define "frequency of process" in the sense that if that kind of process is very diffuse (the production of apple) coefficient will be very low (see law of supply and demand ), if it is not widespread vice versa.
Either way the money is the energy equivalent of that process by the coefficient of frequency (or diversity).
Evidently the equivalent energy of a product becomes more complicated when the property is the sum of several factors (see eg. Service) but in principle simplification can still define and always a "equivalent energy" even when should be a good intellectual.
Now a world economy constantly in crisis, we may think, in theory, that if you want to increase the amount of capital simply produce more goods to solve this problem, but here the thermodynamics involved. We ask that the thermodynamics involved with the economy?
Proceed step by step.
If money is the equivalent energy of an asset or process it is clear that the sum of energy sources is limited, even that of the entire universe.
I have to deduct immediately, and even more so I in a restricted and closed as the Earth, which is not where I can push the quantity and capital flows, I have a very specific limit.
From this first considered it follows that the rich world is linked to the sum of equivalent energy available.
Some argued that might just produce more, or faster, to increase the flow of money.
Here it is further complicated because it comes in the second law of thermodynamics.
We know that energy efficiency is linked to the process of transformation in work and achieve greater efficiency should create a more efficient machine thermodynamics.
Now the machine more efficient thermodynamics that there is the ecosystem itself (see http://www.ecosostenibile.org/bioeticaeng.html). More biodiverso is an ecosystem more efficient and the more I dall'ecosostenibilità away (even in industrial processes or services) the more my production processes (of any species and nature) are vigorously to lower performance.
Ultimately, the second law of thermodynamics tells me that I can not only increase the flow of money, but if they do so untenable interagisco even with the machine that produces the (loss of biodiversity).
To understand this concept just think equivalent to a car but easier thermodynamics, a car.
We know that as a result of the laws of thermodynamics, we can increase the power of a machine increasing processing fuel (energy).
However, if exceeded a certain limit efficiency (as in internal combustion engines is the pair) want to increase the power that is possible but at the expense of energy efficiency. My engine will make less, inquinerà more and logorerà soon as the mechanical parts; ultimately lose efficiency.
Same thing happens to the economic system: The more we accelerate the transformations energy (production) plus diminuiamo yields and that, as happens in thermodynamics goes to the declining performance.
The parallel is that this rate of intrasformabilità (linked to performance) is called Entropy in thermodynamics and Inflation in economics.
We can therefore say that:
Entropy = Inflation
Now most of the economic theories based on capitalism proved to be a failure precisely because not ocenjeni aspects of performance and assets.
The heritage is nothing more than a reserve energy accumulated useful for processing or use energy.
When we talk about an economically healthy society we say that a solid balance sheet, because the heritage, whatever its nature, is an energy accumulation can, in turn, generate energy.
The environment is an asset and energy within this ecosystem through its biodiversity, is a heritage in assets.
The apparent increase in wealth of the industrial age was based on the use of land fuels (oil, coal, soil, etc..) With a model energy significant conflict with the System Environment. The machine thermodynamics of the ecosystem has been thrust his goatskin limit possible logorando many of his pieces.
Several scholars have been interested in these issues, and the economy, escaped within the modern matrix its etymological entered into a paradox because not consider the origins of his birth and nature.
From Plato and Aristotle economic sciences have undergone such an evolution over the centuries escape from the original matrix.
"The relationship between economy and ecology constitute under the sign of the paradox. Already, both etymological, these two words are almost synonymous. Both are under the wing reassuring dell'Oikos (home, property, niche) yet it is known that environmental activists have become more consistent critics of acerrimi as theory (the same Marx, is not absolved from them) and determined opponents of the practice. The fact is that in 1615 assigning the title of "Traitè d 'Economie politique" what Aristotle would have called with horror "of accumulation National Science", or Crematistica, Antoine de Montchrétien, mercantilista French economist, has ended up create confusion destined to last. "*
There can be no economic development without rebalance these concepts.
Who wants to prove otherwise or is not in good faith or deny some mechanisms and the links between the environment, understood as heritage energy and the economy. Who wants to prove the contrary, it is a scientist, a philosopher or a politician should be regarded with suspicion.
Now the vision the equivalent energy-related economic thereof is a good way to balance the concepts of a global economy that is sustainable ecology of the planet.

Guido Bissanti

* The paradox Ecological Economy
And sustainable development as oxymoron -
Serge Latouche