In economic thermodynamics, Thomas Carver (1865-1961) was an American economist noted for his 1924 book The Economy of Human Energy, in which he argued that life processes of social groups consist in transforming the largest possible sum of solar energy into human energy, whereby civilization is a device for storing energy, and social welfare depends upon its utilization in such ways as to increase the sum total of utilization of the sun’s energy. [1]

References
1. (a) Carver, Thomas N. (1924). The Economy of Human Energy. MacMillan.
(b) Reiser, Oliver L. (1935). Philosophy and Conceptions of Modern Science (pg. 240). MacMillan.

External links
● Thomas Nixon Carver – Wikipedia.