. . . total.¹

This is not consistent with current economic theory, which focusses on "rational agents." Here we assume totally mindless, random investment decisions.

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. . . normalization.²

In this case, of course, $\varepsilon$ is an actual energy and $\tau$ is a normal temperature measured in regular energy units. (Back to the "real world" of thermal physics.)

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