A Bird’s-Eye View of the Economic Society

This chapter is the outline of the whole book, which basically reflects the overall appearance and core idea of the book. This chapter introduces the basic hierarchy from the natural system to the social system; concludes the four major laws (i.e., bifurcation, synergy, fractal and periodicity) followed by the evolution and development of human society; summarises the basic classification of resources and their forms; describes the evolution of the components of social reproduction; analyses the features of the long-term transition of relations of distribution in social production by means of historical investigation; and finally demonstrates the differences and similarities between the theoretical framework of this book and the micro-meso-macro theoretical framework proposed by Kurt DopferDopfer, Kurt and others by comparing the connotation of the surface structure and the deep structure and lists the niches of the systems in different domains. The theoretical framework of this book will help to establish a new economic paradigm for the twenty-first century.