01Foundations
Value per Joule: Foundations of an Energy-Normalized Economics
Defines the accounting boundary and separates physical efficiency from economically realized value.
Ten papers. One accounting discipline.
Accounting for economically realized value per joule.
The Joule Standard studies how energy becomes useful work, machine intelligence, settlement assurance, and economic coordination. The framework keeps physical energy measurement separate from outcome quality, causal attribution, and economic valuation.
Schema 01Boundary required
V/J
- Input
- Energy
- Output
- Named outcome
- Status
- Conditional
Research sequence
From energy input to economically realized output.
The papers follow a common accounting chain: energy input, system transformation, measurable outcome, and attribution of economic value.
Research ledger
The ten-paper program
The program develops measurement frameworks for physical work, machine intelligence, settlement assurance, flexible computation, and national productivity.
02Foundations
From Exergy to Intelligence: A General Theory of Economic Transduction
Models how energy becomes useful work, information, coordination, and institutional order.
03Intelligence
Quality-Adjusted Intelligence per Joule
Adjusts machine intelligence for task difficulty, correctness, reliability, and usefulness.
04Settlement
Trust per Joule: The Thermoeconomics of Proof-of-Work Settlement
Treats mining as an energy-to-assurance process under explicit security scenarios.
05Intelligence
Tokens Are Not Value: Economic Accounting for AI Inference
Traces inference expenditure through useful outcomes to realized economic value.
06Markets
Marginal Value of Energy in an Automated Economy
Allocates the next joule among automated systems under network and service constraints.
07Intelligence
The Cognitive Rebound Effect: Why Efficient AI May Increase Energy Demand
Asks when cheaper cognition expands demand enough to offset efficiency gains.
08Markets
Energy Markets for Machine Intelligence and Cryptographic Settlement
Designs grid-aware markets for flexible AI and proof-of-work loads.
09Accounts
A Value-per-Joule National Accounting System
Adds a vector satellite account for useful work, intelligence, assurance, and coordination.
10Foundations
The Joule Standard: A Unified Economics of Work, Trust and Intelligence
Synthesizes the program while preserving the limits of scalar comparison.
Measurement requirement
Energy is physically measured. Economic value is estimated. A value-per-joule result requires an explicit outcome, system boundary, counterfactual, and attribution rule.See the measurement contract