Non-fiction book by Jeremy Rifkin and ted howard, with an afterword by nicholas georgescu-roegen. In the book the authors seek to analyse the world's economic and social structures by using the second law of thermodynami...Non-fiction book by Jeremy Rifkin and ted howard, with an afterword by nicholas georgescu-roegen. In the book the authors seek to analyse the world's economic and social structures by using the second law of thermodynamics, that is, the law of entropy.