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| Author: | Devezas, T. C. Corredine, J. T. |
| Title: | The biological determinants of long-wave behavior in socioeconomic growth and development |
| Journal: | Technological Forecasting and Social Change
2001 : SEP, VOL. 68:1, p. 1-57 |
| Index terms: | BIOLOGY DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL CHANGE GROWTH |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In this paper, it is claimed that the effective causality of long-term macroeconomic rhythms is founded in our biological realm. The observed patterns of regularity in human affairs are constrained and codetermined by our natural human biological clocks, themselves the result of instructions impressed in the human genome and human cognitive capacity by the physical regularity of fixed cosmic cycles. The proposed model is based on two kinds of biological constraints that impose the rhythm of collective human behavior - generational and cognitive. The generational consist of biologically based rhythms, namely, the Aggregate Virtual Working Life Tenure and the Aggregate Female Fecundity Interval, both subsets of the normative human life span or human life cycle. |
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