Peter Turchin Wants to Avoid Political Disintegration

If you have grown up in a household which had decent quality of life and now you are struggling, you cannot even match the degree of wellbeing that your parents achieved, this is very obvious and makes people feel completely dissatisfied with the system that we have now.
Peter Turchin

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Peter is a complexity scientist who has established a new field of social science research called cliodynamics. He is the author of the book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration (amzn.to/3N9xFpE),

Key Highlights
• Introduction - 0:45
• The Crisis - 3:05
• Elites - 11:54
• Popular Immiseration - 30:59
• Cliodynamics - 43:40

Key Links

End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration (amzn.to/3qquiSB) by Peter Turchin

Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution (escholarship.org/uc/irows_cliodynamics)

Learn more about Peter Turchin (peterturchin.com)

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