Rules Without Rulers

A Nobel laureate in chemistry who spent the last thirty years of his life arguing that the banking system violated the second law of thermodynamics. A Ukrainian physician who tried to put Marxism on a thermodynamic footing and was rejected by Friedrich Engels in a single letter. The most famous industrialist in America proposing to pay for a dam with a currency denominated in kilowatt hours, with Thomas Edison standing beside him saying the present system was a swindle. An entire movement of …