文明演化的内生动力学:理论框架

Description(English) This paper develops an endogenous dynamic framework of civilization from a single first postulate. PO asserts that, in societies under resource competition, the dominant driver of civilizational evolution is the efficiency of wealth acquisition. The framework distinguishes five theorems (T1–T5), twenty-two propositions (P1–P22), fifteen corollaries (C1–C15), and three notes (N1–N3), with one accounting equation (E1). Net material wealth Wm drives material assets Am through the material-accumulation share Um and external inflow Ibm, and non-material assets Ai through the social conversion coefficient Es, the non-material accumulation share Ui, and external inflow Ibi. The two stocks are measured separately and coupled intertemporally through Wm and Es. Survival depends on the joint steady-state condition Amss ≥ Am* and Aiss ≥ Ai*. The paper further decomposes Ai into knowledge-network stock Ai_S and organizational command o, with Ai_eff = Ai_S·o; identifies U from the allocation structure of Wm; and treats Ee as a non-monotonic path with paradigm-specific ceilings and post-peak decline. The T2 steady state is conditional, not an insurance policy: a technology switch may destabilize the old steady state and push the system toward L1. This is the theoretical part; empirical applications are presented in Part II