The probable foundations of sustainabilism: Information, energy and entropy based definition of capital, Homo Sustainabiliticus and the need for a “new gold”
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New networked knowledge-based global economy; Intellectual capital; Human capital; Entropy; Homo sustainabiliticus; “New gold”; Sustainabilism;All these keywords.
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