I got a lot out of reading Peter Turchin’s “Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall”, and I’m going to read more of his works soon. He makes elegant mathematical arguments about the intertwining effects of population, technology, and social cohesion on growth and collapse of societies.
I got a lot out of reading Peter Turchin’s “Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall”, and I’m going to read more of his works soon. He makes elegant mathematical arguments about the intertwining effects of population, technology, and social cohesion on growth and collapse of societies.