Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next)

Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next) — Peter Turchin

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Peter Turchin is a complexity scientist and one of the founders of cliodynamics — a new, cross-disciplinary field that applies mathematics and big data to test historical theories. Full transcript available at: jnwpod.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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