Economic thermodynamics

TL;DR

This paper develops a thermodynamic framework for economic systems, establishing analogies between thermodynamic and economic parameters, and deriving economic laws and phenomena such as inflation and market stability from thermodynamic principles.

Contribution

It introduces a novel thermodynamic approach to economics, linking thermodynamic concepts with economic parameters and providing a formal basis for understanding economic laws and market phenomena.

Findings

Thermodynamic parameters can be mapped to economic indicators.

Economic laws can be derived from thermodynamic principles.

The approach explains phenomena like inflation and market stability.

Abstract

A thermodynamic approach to the description of economic systems and processes is developed. It is shown that there is a deep analogy between the parameters of thermodynamic and economic systems (markets); so each thermodynamic parameter can be associated with a certain economic parameter or indicator. The economic meaning of such primordially thermodynamic concepts as internal energy and temperature has been established. It is shown that many economic laws, which in economic theory are a generalization of the results of observations, or are based on the analysis of the psychology of the behavior of market actors, within the framework of economic thermodynamics can be obtained as the natural and formal results of the theory. In particular, we show that economic thermodynamics allows a natural description of such a phenomenon as inflation. The thermodynamic conditions of market equilibrium stability are derived and analyzed, as well as the Le Chatelier's principle as applied to economic systems.