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  • adjective Countering entropy.

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anti- +‎ entropic

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Examples

  • In short, the very existence of information costs is compatible with, or “derivable” from, the antientropic thesis.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • Several significant lines of development of neoclassical economics, that attempt to cope with major “anomalies” that the paradigm has encountered, find a theoretical home in the thesis about the antientropic nature of rationality.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • Basically it is argued here that rationality is antientropic.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • The learning curve is another phenomenon that engineers, operation researchers, and economists have discovered, which finds a theoretical explanation in the antientropic nature of rationality.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • In short, the very existence of information costs is compatible with, or “derivable” from, the antientropic thesis.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • Several significant lines of development of neoclassical economics, that attempt to cope with major “anomalies” that the paradigm has encountered, find a theoretical home in the thesis about the antientropic nature of rationality.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • Basically it is argued here that rationality is antientropic.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • The learning curve is another phenomenon that engineers, operation researchers, and economists have discovered, which finds a theoretical explanation in the antientropic nature of rationality.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

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