Original scientific paper

Social Free Energy of a Pareto-like Resource Distribution

Josip Stepanić orcid.org/0000-0003-0674-9883 ; Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture – University of Zagreb
Hrvoje Štefančić ; Theoretical Physics Division – Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
Vinko Zlatić ; Theoretical Physics Division – Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb

Abstract

For an organisation with a Pareto-like distribution of the relevant resources we determine the social free energy and related social quantities using thermodynamical formalism. Macroscopic dynamics of the organisation is linked with the changes in the attributed thermodynamical quantities through changes in resource distribution function. It is argued that quantities of thermodynamical origin form the optimised set of organisation’s state indicators, which is reliable expression of micro-dynamics.

Keywords

resource distribution function; Pareto distribution; social free energy

Hrčak ID:

76872

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/76872

Publication date:

15.2.2007.

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