The economic system is utterly embedded in the physical/temporal universe. Thus, even completely unregulated and operated in the highest possibly efficient manner,  it is bound to and by the laws of thermo-dynamics which in turn means that it is inherently cost inflationary due to enforced increase in energy needed to maintain itself.  The Financial System on the other hand is based in an idea/an abstraction, namely money which is not subject to the laws of thermo-dynamics. The lack of distinction between the two has allowed the latter to perform a sleight of hand that turns what could be direct and ever increasing individual economic freedom and systemic free flowingness into a system of dominance, self interested profit seeking and control where the non-entropic nature and freeing power of money is not allowed to reach the individual except via ever more diminishing employment which is again subject to the cost inflationary nature of the temporal universe and/or only via the enforced costs of Finance. Integrating the non-entropic powers of money into the economic system with policies  that are direct, immediate, continuous and freeing to the individual is the answer to our present increasing economic entropy.