Volume II

Factor Prime

Energy, Intelligence, and the Alchemy of Output

How energy conversion, computational intelligence, and agentic systems are remaking the structure of economic value.

Part IThe Hidden Variable

Energy as the Secret History of Growth

Part IICapital as Regime Artifact

The Moving Boundary of Value

Part IIIThe Thermodynamic Ledger

Landauer, Lloyd, and the Thermodynamic Floor

Part IVThe Derivation

Factor Prime as the Sixth Key Input

Part VThe Agentic Discontinuity

Why Autonomous Agents Are Not Just Better Robots

Part VIWhere Returns Flow

Part VIIWho Signs

Appendices

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