THE NATURE OF ENTROPY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Oksana MYKHAILOVSKA

Abstract


This report analyzes the relationship between thermodynamic and information entropy. It is shown that in the case of socio-economic impact of information systems on the organization of social and economic systems is ambiguous.


Keywords


Entropy, socio-economic systems, information entropy, thermodynamic systems.

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