Economic Inquiry into the Nonlinear Behaviors of Nations

Rongxing Guo is Professor and Head of the Regional Economics Committee in the Regional Science Association of China at Peking University in Beijing, China. He has 30 years of experience teaching and researching in China, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Germany, and the USA. He has led research projects for the OECD and the World Bank, and has undertaken consultation for the Chinese government.

• 1. 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.