Why Do Societies Collapse?
| Autor: | Gregory G. Brunk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Conjecture
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Sociology and Political Science Human systems engineering 05 social sciences Collapse (topology) Fractal pattern Neoclassical economics 01 natural sciences Self-organized criticality 0506 political science Theory based Criticality 050602 political science & public administration Economics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Theoretical Politics. 14:195-230 |
| ISSN: | 1460-3667 0951-6298 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/095169280201400203 |
| Popis: | The oldest answered question in the social sciences is ‘Why do societies collapse?’. I advance a theory of the collapse of societies that is based on self-organized criticality, which is a nonlinear process that produces sudden shifts and fractal patterns in historical time series. More generally, I conjecture that weak, self-organized criticality is ubiquitous in human systems. If this conjecture is correct, it would not only explain the source of total societal collapses but the pattern of most other sorts of human calamities and even the frequency distribution of many mundane day-to-day events. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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