How Should We Use Entropy in Economics? (1991) [pdf]

&gt; Presumably, a process of trial and error will be needed to find the right choices<p>This is a huge difference between macroeconomics and thermodynamics. You can&#x27;t just have a control group of people, test a policy with them and say &#x27;omg they died of starvation&#x27;. I know well designed experiments exist such as basic income, but I hope I made a point: You can&#x27;t just test macro policies as you would test heat transfer in a lab.

My first reaction is that there is no reason to use entropy. In physics you can prove that Hamiltonian motion leads to ergodic behavior and that creates the push to higher entropy. In an economic system I question that ergodicity would be satisfied. So similarly I doubt that there is inherent reason to expect entropy to increase or even be a useful metric on the system.