Systemic Attitude and the Concept of Entropy in Economics

In recent decades، the holistic or systemic approach has been influential in the attitude of researchers in the different fields of science. In this holistic approach، models، principles and rules are found that regardless of the specific elements and relationships that formed between the elemental forces apply on the public system. One of those universal rules from systemic approach، is the second law of thermodynamics and entropy، which is one of the most important property of physical systems and the concept has emerged from the second law of thermodynamics، a feature that there is not only in physical systems but also in the living، social and economic systems. The concept of entropy in the economics literature is a kind of systemic thinking. In this paper after describing the system concepts and entropy، new approach to the concept of entropy in the economy is explained using a systemic approach.