正題名/作者 : An economic inquiry into the nonlinear behaviors of nations/ by Rongxing Guo.
其他題名 : dynamic developments and the origins of civilizations /
作者 : Guo, Rongxing.
出版者 : Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
面頁冊數 : xvii, 294 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By : Springer eBooks
標題 : Civilization - History. -
電子資源 : 線上閱讀(Springer)
ISBN : 9783319487724 (ebook)
ISBN : 9783319487717 (paper)
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505 0 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Culture as an Anti-Darwinian Process -- 3. Good Environment, Bad Environment -- 4. Living in the Lands Threatened -- 5. Are there any Optimal Strategies for Nations? -- 6. Civilization as a Cyclical Human Process -- 7. China: Short Cycles, Long Cycles -- 8. The Western World: A Longer Cycle -- 9. In Cycles We Trust.
520 $aThis book applies an economic approach to examine the driving forces behind the dynamic behaviors of developing nations. Taking into account initial conditions and environmental and external factors often oversimplified by historians and anthropologists, Guo finds that the rise and fall of civilizations and nations followed an anti-Darwinian process: physical weakness, rather than strength, induced humans to adapt. Cultures facing unfavorable physical and environmental conditions developed complex societies to overcome these challenges, while favorable conditions did not incentivize major economic and cultural change. Over centuries of economic growth and development, nations and civilizations' adaptive behaviors have followed a cyclical path at both the country level and in an international context. This interdisciplinary book incorporates elements of history, anthropology, and development into an astute economic analysis that changes the way we think about the origins and evolutions of civilizations.
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