Not exact matches
Central planning certainly failed and I strongly doubt that stability is achievable in capitalist economies, given the
always turbulent competitive markets continuously being drawn towards, but never quite
achieving,
equilibrium (that is the process leading to economic growth).
However,
equilibrium is
always achieved at a higher overall temperature.
By «falling towards
equilibrium» I mean that
equilibrium is never
achieved but
always oscillates around an
equilibrium point, with each variable presumably operating on a number of different time scales.
For an ideal gas in an adiabatic container in a gravitational field, one will
always observe the gas in this state once
equilibrium is established, and while the time required to
achieve equilibrium is not given in EEJ, it is presumably commensurate with convective mixing times of ordinary gases within the container and hence not terribly long.