Boating Against the Current: The Advance-Retreat Analysis for Socio-Economic Process

Feng, Dai (2006): Boating Against the Current: The Advance-Retreat Analysis for Socio-Economic Process.

Abstract

Boating against the current is a kind of human behavior which can generalize many real socio-economic processes. Starting from the view of point, this paper suggests the problem for advance-retreat course and builds the general analytic models of advance-retreat. By the models, we could see the endogenous resistances, instead of exogenous resistances, causes the periodic fluctuation in socio-economic process, and get the critical condition under which the periodic fluctuation is occured. A series of results for developing motivity and investing strategies are obtained. Finally, the conclusions and strategies are illuminated to be rational and maneuverable by two examples.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: socio-economic development; advancing motivity; environment resistance; advance-retreat course
• Subjects: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General > E00 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C5 - Econometric Modeling > C51 - Model Construction and Estimation

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