This document constitutes the final report for the grant. It provides a complete list of publications and presentations that arose from the project as well as a brief description of the highlights of the research results. The research funded by this grant has provided insights into the...

A long-standing goal of chemical engineers and chemists has been the development of techniques for accurate prediction of the thermodynamic properties of isolated molecules. The thermochemical functions for an ideal gas then provide a means of computing chemical equilibria, and such computations...

In this paper, it is argued that the espousal of biological analogies by evolutionary economists cannot reveal the most important features of evolutionary change in economic processes. Analogies are used to best effect in the preliminary stages of research and in their normal linguistic role as...