Classical Econophysics

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This book sets out to address some basic questions drawing from classical political economy and information theory and using an econophysics methodology: What is information? Why is it valuable? What is the relationship between money and information? Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Problematizing Labour 2. Problematizing Information 3. Labour Productivity 4. From Machines to the Universal Machine 5. Information and Communication 6. Political economy: Value and Labour 7. The Probabilistic Approach to the Law of Value 8. Value in a Capitalist Economy 9. Farjoun and Machover's theory of price 10. A probabilistic model of the social relations of capitalism 11. Money and the form of value 12. Credit and Capital 13. Understanding profit 14. Hayek on Information and Knowledge 15. The Big Picture, economic trajectories in Britain and China Appendix A: Proofs Appendix B: Experimental details Appendix C: Commodity Amplitude Space Appendix D: A simple planning program Appendix E: Profits in the SA model