Abstract
This chapter introduces the ? model, the analytical model used to investigate the economic efficiency of countries. The chapter provides an explanation of this model through the second law of thermodynamics, the concept of ‘complex energy,' and the principle of equipartition (from statistical mechanics). To eliminate the need for using energy units, and to enable the conversion between different input and outputs, the engineering concept of per-unit is also introduced.
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