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In Chapter 4 we discussed the problem of the ‘irreversibility of time’; that is, the asymmetry of time, and the irreversibility of the ‘appearance’ of many processes in time. We also defined three types of time irreversibility, and applied them to various schools of economic thought.
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Faber, M., Proops, J.L.R. (1990). Time in the Natural Sciences: Some Lessons for Economics. In: Evolution, Time, Production and the Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02589-5_5
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