In economic thermodynamics, Wayne M. Saslow (c. 1941-) is an American physicist noted for his 1999 article “An Economic Analogy to Thermodynamics”, in which he argues that the state of an economic system, being a physical system, must be quantified by a temperature and conjugate variable pair entropy. He also formulates an analogy version of free energy, Maxwell relations, and a Gibbs-Duhem relationship. [1] Saslow's work has been referenced by Victor Maslov. [2]

Education
Saslow completed his BA at the University of Pennsylvania, his MS at the University of California at Berkeley, and his PhD at the University of California at Irvine. He was a research associate at the University of Pittsburgh. He became a professor at Texas A&M University in 1971, where he currently resides.

References
1. Saslow, Wayne M. (1999). “An Economic Analogy to Thermodynamics”, Am. J. Phys. 67(12): 1239-47.
2. Maslov, Viktor P. (2010). “Tropical Mathematics and the Financial Catastrophe of the 17th Century: Thermoeconomics of Russia in the early 20th Century.” Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, 17(1): 126-40.