| Description |
1 online resource (674 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| Contents |
The Limitations of Human Understanding of the World -- The Evolution of the Thinking Paradigm and Its Philosophical Basis -- A Birds-eye View of the Economic Society -- The Micro-level of the Economic System: The Dynamic Structure and Evolution of the Firm -- The Meso-level of the Economic System: The Dynamic Structure and Evolution of the Sector -- The Long-Term Evolution of Agriculture in China -- The Macro-level of the Economic System: The Dynamic Structure and Evolution of the National Economy -- The Structure, Function and Evolution of the State and the Social System -- The Main Dynamics and the Features of Social Development in Ancient China |
| Summary |
Based on the philosophy of Systems Science and the law of evolution theory, the book, by applying the methods of structural functionalism, divides the modern social system into human-culture, economy, polity, science, law, education and other sub-systems through the systematic synthesis of disciplines such as economics, sociology, management, politics, culture theories, history and philosophy, and explores the connection between these sub-systems and their intricate relation with social progress, thus depicting the historical trajectory of the long-term evolution of human social system. Starting from the actual production and operation of the firms, the author systematically analyses the organic connections and sophisticated operating process of social reproduction in modern society from micro, meso and macro, revealing the dynamic structure and evolutionary laws of the social economic system. This book reveals the fractal features such as self-similarity, hierarchy, and recursiveness in the general structure of the firm system, the sector system and the national economic system, thereby integrating micro-, meso- and macro-economics into a unified theoretical framework. This integration is interdisciplinary, and has gone beyond the economics. It can be regarded as the fourth grand synthesis in the history of economics after John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) and Samuelson (1915-2009) |
| Notes |
Translated from the Chinese |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 03, 2023) |
| Subject |
Social systems.
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Economics.
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Economics -- Sociological aspects.
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economics.
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Economics
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Economics -- Sociological aspects
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Social systems
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yu, Hui-Zhong, translator
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| ISBN |
9789811988035 |
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981198803X |
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