Helix Network Theory: The Dynamic Structure and Evolution of Economy and Society

ISBN-13: 9789811988028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 569 str.

Runyuan Gan

Opis

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).

Spis treści

The Limitations of Human Understanding of the World.- The Evolution of the Thinking Paradigm and Its Philosophical Basis.- A Bird’s-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.

O autorze

Gan Run-Yuan, born in 1969, is a cultural economist and writer. He has received the winner Golden Man Award of the 2019 International Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation Awards. He used to work at the China Venture Capital Research Institute, currently a professor and graduate research supervisor of Economics and Management at East China Jiaotong University, and a visiting professor of Economics and Management at Dalian Jiaotong University, and Yingsheng Network Business School, etc. His most recent publications are Helix Network Theory: The Dynamic Structure and Evolution of Economy and Society, a monograph on social economics, The Lonely Picture of Spiritual Life: A 100-Year Map of the Nobel Laureates in Literature, a biographical commentary, and The Wings of Spring, a literary collection. He also participated in the compilation of Creative Economics, Personal Financial Planning, Operational Practices of International Academic Journal and other eight books.