Social free energy was recently introduced as a measure of social action obtainable from a given social system, without changes in its structure. In this article its relation with physical free energy for a toy-model of interacting agents is analysed. Values of the social and physical free...

Characterisation of unbounded resources of a social system within the sociological interpretation has resulted in a large number of different notions, which are relevant in different situations. From the view point of statistical mechanics, these notions resemble free energy. In this paper the...