Introduction to Evolutionary Period Theory（EPT）

The world is currently facing a major challenge: is there a terminal model or universal model that all countries can follow generally? Solving this difficult problem requires finding new problem-solving tools, and the Evolution Period Theory(EPT) proposed by the two authors is such an exploration. The Evolutionary Period Theory is a theory that reveals the evolution process of human economy, or two types of dissipation processes (i.e. the self dissipation and the mutual dissipation), based on improving of the theory of dissipative structure by the authors.Both of these processes need to be periodically promoted within the controliing by institutions and openness.At present, the most developed countries in the world have gone through four periods of agriculture, industry, service, and cultural, and are about to enter the network period. In this process of progress, institutions and openness themselves also undergo periodically changes. Therefore, there is no such thing as a universal model, only a universal period. As an application, this article compares and analyzes the Washington Consensus and the Beijing Consensus, reveals their common problem of attaching important that “development is the key principle“, and proposing a new approach that“ progress is the key principle” .