Ebook {Epub PDF} Entropy by Jeremy Rifkin

One of the most popular social thinkers of our time, Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of The European Dream, The Hydrogen Economy, The Age of Access, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work. A fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program and an adviser to several European Union heads of state, he is the president of the Cited by:  · Entropy: A New World View by Jeremy Rifkin published in by Viking Press. (with Ted Howard). Once in a great while an idea changes the course of history. I have before me a letter from Jeremy Rifkin, author of Entropy: A New World View. His communication states that “entropy helps explain why we have runaway. Entropy is said to be a law of nature that constrains all we do. It is the tendency of everything to disorder and randomness. In this book, Jeremy Rifkin asserts our existing world view is crumbling and tells us what will replace it. After all, the other law of nature Rifkin addresses is that nature abhors a vacuum.4/5(35).

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Entropy: A New World View by Jeremy Rifkin Viking Press (with Ted Howard) Once in a great while an idea changes the course of history. The Entropy Law–or the Second Law of Thermodynamics–is such an idea. It states that all energy flows inexorably from the orderly to the disorderly and from the usable to the unusable. The Entropy Law shows us that the larger the work tools—the machines, the factories—the more capital and energy intensive and the more entropic they become. From the metaphysical point of reference, the scale of the work tools is also critical, for the larger and more centralized they become, the more the role of the human is reduced to just another factor of production. Non-fiction book by Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, with an Afterword by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. In the book the authors seek to analyse the world's economic and social structures by using the second law of thermodynamics, that is, the law of entropy. The authors argue that humanity is wasting resources at an increasing rate, and that will lead to the destruction of our c.