{"slug":"convergence-c19","verification":{"valid":false,"broken_at":0,"reason":"prev mismatch"},"count":4,"sources":[{"id":"georgescu-roegen-1971","type":"primary","url":"/a/georgescu-roegen-1971","title":"The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971)","quote":"Production is not creation. It is transformation that degrades energy quality. Low-entropy resources enter. High-entropy waste exits. The process cannot be reversed.","summary":"Georgescu-Roegen proved that every economic process increases entropy. Production transforms low-entropy inputs into high-entropy waste and is physically irreversible.","claim_ids":["c1","c2"],"quality_score":1},{"id":"prigogine-1977","type":"primary","url":"/a/prigogine-1977","title":"Dissipative Structures (1977)","quote":"A whirlpool exists only while water flows through it. A flame exists only while fuel burns. An economy exists only while gradients flow.","summary":"Prigogine's mathematics proved that order (dissipative structures) persists only by exporting entropy. Stop the flow, and the structure decays.","claim_ids":["c1","c2"],"quality_score":1},{"id":"ayres-1998","type":"primary","url":"/a/ayres-1998","title":"Energy Inputs and Economic Growth (1998)","quote":"50% of economic growth in industrial nations came from energy inputs, not labor or capital.","summary":"Robert Ayres showed empirically that roughly half of economic growth in industrial nations is attributable to energy inputs, demonstrating that the Industrial Revolution was an energy revolution.","claim_ids":["c3","c5"],"quality_score":0.9},{"id":"landauer-1961","type":"adjacent","url":"/a/landauer-1961","title":"Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process (1961)","quote":"Erasing a bit costs kT ln(2). No computation is free.","summary":"Landauer proved that every computational act has a thermodynamic cost. Information processing is not exempt from entropy; it is an energy process.","claim_ids":["c2","c6"],"quality_score":0.95}]}