End times elites, counter-elites, and the path of political disintegration
"Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book." -Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. From the pioneering co-founder of c...
| Main Author: | Turchin, Peter, 1957- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The cliodynamics of power. Elites, elite overproduction, and the road to crisis
- Stepping back : lessons of history
- Part II. The drivers of instability. "The peasants are revolting"
- The revolutionary troops
- The ruling class
- Why is is America a plutocracy?
- Part III. Crisis and aftermath. State breakdown
- Histories of the near future
- The wealth pump and the future of democracy
- Appendix. A new science of history
- A historical macroscope
- The structural dynamic approach.