Measures of Social Evolution

Macroeconomic Indicators of Social Stability

Erik W. Aslaksen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

83 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-16-1799-7 (ISBN)

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This book extends a previously published model of social evolution by using macroeconomic measures to indicate both the current state of the society, and its evolutionary trajectory. This model considers society as a system of interacting elements evolving through stages of increasing strength of interaction and complexity of structure. It measures society in constituting the world collectively, with nation-states as the elements, here described through macroeconomic measures such as GDP, government expenditure, and inequality. The economic data presented indicates that this stage is approaching the next evolutionary step, which is either the formation of a world society of nations, with an associated overarching common infrastructure absorbing some of the sovereign functions of nation-states as they exist today, or as a society of competing groups of nations, each bound by alliances and bilateral agreements. The book explores how the former faces great obstacles in the form of nationalism and a misunderstood concept of sovereignty, and poses that it is in an embryonic stage. The author poses that it is this structure that would be best equipped to handle common challenges, such as the environment and global warming, and topically, pandemics. A novel interdisciplinary text in social complexity, this book is of interest to researchers in socio-economic fields.

Erik Aslaksen experience covers engineering, physics, economics, and sociology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales and of the International Council on Systems Engineering, a Charter Member of Omega Alpha, the author of seven books, four book chapters, and more than eighty papers. Recent books include The Stability of Society (Springer 2020) and The Social Bond (Springer 2018) He has worked in the US, Switzerland and Australia, where he is currently based.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Sociology
Zusatzinfo	15 Illustrations, color; 23 Illustrations, black and white; X, 83 p. 38 illus., 15 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	981-16-1799-6 / 9811617996
ISBN-13	978-981-16-1799-7 / 9789811617997
Zustand	Neuware