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200 13$aAn Economic Inquiry into the Nonlinear Behaviors of Nations $eDynamic Developments and the Origins of Civilizations /$fby Rongxing Guo
205   $a1st ed. 2017.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017.
215   $a1 online resource (XVII, 294 p. 18 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
327   $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.
330   $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 evolutionsof civilizations. .
606   $aMacroeconomics
606   $aDevelopment economics
606   $aEconomic history
606   $aWorld history
606   $aEthnology
606   $aMacroeconomics and Monetary Economics
606   $aDevelopment Economics
606   $aEconomic History
606   $aWorld History, Global and Transnational History
606   $aSociocultural Anthropology
615  0$aMacroeconomics.
615  0$aDevelopment economics.
615  0$aEconomic history.
615  0$aWorld history.
615  0$aEthnology.
615 14$aMacroeconomics and Monetary Economics.
615 24$aDevelopment Economics.
615 24$aEconomic History.
615 24$aWorld History, Global and Transnational History.
615 24$aSociocultural Anthropology.
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