decisions as how much of a good to produce, how to make it, and what to ß charge for it, their behavior is nothing if not the subject of economic theory. At the same time, however, businesses are organizations of people whose choices are affected by the social and cultural environment inwhich they live and work. Hence understanding how businesses operated in the past and why they succeeded orfa...

Over the centuries, world economic system and the corresponding economic structure have been in a state of continuous evolution. In this paper, through the empirical analysis on the evolution history of world economic structure, we show that the underlying driving force for the evolution of world economic structure is Technology Innovation. Specifically, we find that symmetry breakings not only...