Thermodynamics, entropy and disorder in futures studies

Futures

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1029-1044

  Floyd, Joshua ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34548585164     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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