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The Boltzmann entropy, SB, is not guaranteed to be non-decreasing.
Information Processing and Thermodynamic Entropy Maroney, Owen 2009
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When one paper speaks of the second law being violated or of entropy decreasing and another of it being saved or being non-decreasing, it is not necessarily the case that they are referring to the same things.
Information Processing and Thermodynamic Entropy Maroney, Owen 2009
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Within this framework, the optimal growth path maximizes economic output, while sustainability rules are met by ensuring non-decreasing stocks of assets (or capital).
Economic, social, and environmental elements of development 2008
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The optimality-based approach has been widely used in economic analysis to generally maximize welfare (or utility), subject to the requirement that the stock of productive assets (or welfare itself) is non-decreasing in the long term This assumption is common to most sustainable economic growth models, as reviewed by Pezzey [3] and Islam [4].
Economic, social, and environmental elements of development 2008
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Further side constraints may be imposed to satisfy sustainability needs – e.g., non-decreasing stocks of productive assets (including natural resources).
Economic, social, and environmental elements of development 2008
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One useful indicator of the sustainability of natural resource stocks would be the ratio R = N/P. More specifically, one might seek a development path in which this ratio was non-decreasing.
Economic, social, and environmental elements of development 2008
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Side constraints may be imposed to satisfy sustainability needs – e.g., non-decreasing stocks of productive assets.
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Basically, the optimal growth path maximizes economic output, while the sustainability requirement is met by ensuring non-decreasing stocks of assets.
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The optimality-based approach has been widely used in economic analysis to generally maximize welfare (or utility), subject to the requirement that the stock of productive assets (or welfare itself) is non-decreasing in the long-term.
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Entropy in thermodynamics is both additive and non-decreasing; Boltzmann's entropy is only additive; Gibbs's entropy is only non-decreasing.
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