photo neededIn hmolscience, Marc et Andre Lichnerowicz (1945-1969) was a French mathematician noted for his circa 1968 “Economics and Thermodynamics: a Model of Economic Exchange”, wherein he applied extensive and intensive thermodynamic models of exchange to economic exchanges.

Overview
In the late 1960s, Lichnerowicz, penned “Economics and Thermodynamics: a Model of Economic Exchange”, posthumously-published in 1970, wherein, based on the axiomatic thermodynamics of Constantin Caratheodory, and thermodynamics textbooks of Laszlo Tisza (1966) and Herbert Callen (date), he attempted a rather detailed formulaic entropy-based derivation focused on economic exchanges; the following is his opening paragraph:

French
English
“La presentation modern de la thermodynamique (par exemple Carathedory, H.B. Callen, L. Tisza) met en evidence une axiomatique d’echanges entre systems physiques d’un caractere extremement general. La distinction entre variables ‘extensives’ et variables ‘intensives’, par example, parait adapte a tout processus d’echange, quel que soit le domaine concret ou s’opere un tel echange.” “The presentation of modern thermodynamics (e.g. Carathedory, H.B. Callen, L. Tisza) shows evidence of an axiomatic exchanges between physical systems of an extremely general nature. The distinction between variables 'extensive' and variables 'intensive', for example, seems to fit in any exchange process, regardless of the specific field or operates such an exchange.”

Lichnerowicz, in overview, according to Andrei Khrennikov (2005), postulates or outlines a model of stock dynamics akin to the stochastic dynamics of gas flow. [1] Philip Mirowski (1989) classifies Lichnerowicz as a “further out neosimulator”, in the history of non-neoclassical or anti-neoclassical economics programs of the appropriation of physics metaphors, that he has stumbled upon in his research, along with: Johannes Lisman (1949), Andrew Pikler (1951), John Bryant (1982), Edwin Jaynes (1983), and Giuseppe Palomba (1968). [3]

Education
Lichnerowicz seems to have been the son of French mathematical physicist Andre Lichnerowicz (1915-1998). (ΡΊ)

References
1. Lichnerowicz, Marc. (1970). “Economics and Thermodynamics: a Model of Economic Exchange” (“Un Modele d’ echange Economique: Economie et Thermodynamique”) (pdf), Annals of the Institute Henri Poincare, 6(2):159-200.
2. Khrennikov, Andrei. (2005). “Financial Heat Machine” (abs), Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 359(1-2): 487-490.
3. (a) Lichnerowicz, Marc and Lichnerowicz, A. (1971). “Economie et Thermodynamique: Un Modele d’ echange Economique: Economie et Thermodynamique”, Economies et Societes, 5:1641-86.
(b) Mirowski, Philip. (1989). More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics (pg. #). Cambridge University Press.

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