THE BOOK · FORTHCOMING
Entronomics
A General Theory of Self-Learning Adaptive Economies
About this book
A general theory that re-founds economic analysis on a self-learning, adaptive primitive. A full description will appear here once released; no blurb, publisher, ISBN, price or date is listed until it is confirmed.
The scholarly backbone
The book rests on a programme of working papers, arranged in six movements. Each is a full manuscript in its own right; together they are the treatise's spine. (The two live, reproducible papers and the seven earlier peer-reviewed papers are listed on the Research Papers page.)
THE BOUNDED AGENT · THE CANON NESTED
Foundations: Equilibrium as a Limit
- General Equilibrium in Hilbert Space: Competitive Equilibrium as an Orthogonal Projection of the Adaptive State
- Discounting at Finite Capacity: Micro-Founding Geometric Discounting: and the Compressed Euler Equation
- Capacity-Constrained Reinforcement Learning: Policy Compression, Generalisation, and the Recovery of Optimal Control in the Infinite-Rate Limit
- Equilibrium as a Limit: The Competitive Canon Nested in an Adaptive, Information-Theoretic Economy
- Choice at Finite Capacity: The Bounded Agent as an Information Channel and the Recovery of Walrasian Demand
- Strategic Interaction under Bounded Capacity: Quantal Response, Potential, and the Recovery of Nash Equilibrium
THE RECOVERED OPERATOR · PARTIAL IDENTIFICATION
Identification: What Comovement Recovers
- Recovery Equivalence Theory: The structure of non-identification, and decision over the equivalence class
- Recovering a Drifting Dependence Operator: Effective Sample Size, Recursive Re-Recovery: and a Scale-Indexed Certification Gate
- The Shape that Survives: Topological Invariants of Equilibrium under Observational Equivalence
- The Partial Identification of a Dependence Operator: What an Observed Spectrum Recovers from Economic Comovement
- Estimation and Inference for a Partially Identified: Dependence Operator
SPECTRAL CONCENTRATION · REPRODUCED LIVE
Crisis, Contagion & the Fragility Edge
- Rational Bubbles at the Spectral Edge: An Operator-Spectral Theory of Fragility, Identification, and Finite-Sample Certification
- An Adaptive Macro-Network Model: A Co-evolving Recovered Dependence Operator with Bounded-Rational Learning
- Pricing Network Concentration as a Disaster-State Factor: A Partially Identified Pricing Kernel with a Falsifiable Closure
- A Rare-Disaster Wavelet State: Multiscale Disaster Regimes with a Certification Boundary
- The Empirical Signatures of Crisis: Spectral and Directed Diagnostics of a: Recovered Dependence Operator
- The Finite-Capacity Adaptive Market: Dependence Collapse as a Transcritical Transition
THE PERRON EIGENRAY · OPERATOR DRIFT
Growth, Production & Technology
- Long-Memory Business Cycles: A Fractionally Integrated Equilibrium Model with an Irreducible Forecast Floor
- The Firm Boundary as a Channel Comparison: Organisation, Reorganisation, and the Machine Member
- Technology as Operator Drift: The Law of Motion of a Recovered Production Structure
- Beyond Hulten under Ignorance: The Cumulant Hierarchy of Identification in a Recovered Production Network
- Growth in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Identified Regimes and Refused Arrivals
- Growth under Ignorance: Balanced Growth as a Perron Eigenray and the Identified Content of a Recovered Production Network
ARTIFICIAL THINKING CAPACITY AS A FACTOR
Machine-Capital & Intelligent Machines
- Machine-Capital: Accumulable Capacity, the Optimisation-Belief Wedge: and the Efficiency-Fragility Tension
- The Optimal Regulation of Machine-Capital: Spectral Externalities and the Limits of Certification
- Labour as Adaptive Energy Allocation: The Worker as a Finite-Capacity Channel and the: Recovered Wage Structure
ADMISSIBLE INTERVENTION · REFUSAL AS OPTIMUM
Regulation, Policy & Viability
- Refusal as an Optimum: Robust Regulation of a Recovered Dependence Operator under a Per-Coordinate Entropy Budget
- Scale-Dependent Monetary Transmission with a Recovered Dependence Operator: A Heterogeneous-Agent Model with an Identification Boundary
- The Viability of an Adaptive Economy: A viability functional, and why recoverability is its boundary
- Optimal Policy under Partial Identification: Admissible Intervention, Spectral Steering, and Robustness to Non-Identification
About the author
Dr. Avishek Bhandari is an Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, IIT Bhubaneswar, working on macroeconomic and financial networks: how markets adapt, interconnect and communicate across space and time, from network-based market-efficiency frameworks to cryptocurrency ecosystem dynamics and the information flows that drive economic contagion.
School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India · avishekb@iitbbs.ac.in
Table of contents
The complete contents of the forthcoming book: eight parts, forty-one chapters and four appendices. Chapter titles are final; pagination is not yet fixed.
- Preface: Ambition, Audience, and Method
- Origins: The Order-Idea, Its Hardening, and the Road Not Taken
Part IEntropic Foundations
- 1The Equilibrium Ontology and Its Limits
- 2Entropy, Information, and Economic Order
- 3The Economy as a Non-Stationary Information Source
- 4Belief, Inference, and Relative Entropy
Part IISelf-Learning Adaptive Dynamics
- 5Bounded Agents as Information Channels
- 6Learning, Selection, and Evolutionary Stability
- 7Networks, Dependence, and the Recovered Operator
- 8The Entropic-Adaptive Market
- 9Mathematical Foundations
Part IIIMacroeconomics, Policy, and Design
- 10The Empirical Signatures of Crisis
- 11Welfare, Policy, and Ethics
- 12Inflation, Networks, and the Identified Target
- 13Optimal Control and Design
- 14Recursion, Value, and the Recovered Equilibrium
Part IVThe Self-Learning Research Programme
- 15The Self-Learning Research Programme
Part VThe Re-Founding
- 16First Principles
- 17The Theory of Entronomic Choice
- 18The Theory of Entronomic Intertemporal Choice
- 19The Theory of the Entronomic Firm
- 20The Theory of Entronomic Exchange
- 21The Theory of Entronomic Games
- 22The Theory of the Entronomic Macroeconomy
Part VIThe Factors of Production
- 23The Theory of Entronomic Capital
- 24The Theory of Entronomic Labour
- 25The Theory of Entronomic Technology
Part VIIThe Theory of Entronomic Growth
- 26The Question of the Long Run
- 27The Neoclassical Synthesis Recovered
- 28Endogenous Growth and the Measure of Ignorance
- 29Growth as the Recovered Turnpike
- 30The Physics of Growth
- 31Distribution and the Long Run
- 32Growth in the Age of Intelligent Machines
- 33What the Theory of Growth Identifies
- 34The Mathematical Theory of Growth
- 35The Critique of Political Economy
- 36The Normative Bridge
- 37Entronometrics
Part VIIIThe Architecture of the Adaptive Order
- 38The Theory of Industrial Reorganisation
- 39General Equilibrium in Hilbert Space
- 40Minds, Machines, and the Topology of Equilibrium
- 41Homology, Degree, and Equilibrium
End matter
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Notation
- Appendix B: Glossary of Principal Terms
- Appendix C: The Dependence of the Theorems
- Appendix D: The Theorems of an Adaptive Economics