Sökresultat för: Joseph A. Tainter
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Häftad)
avJoseph A. Tainter
ISBN: 9780521386739 - UTGIVEN: 199003Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a[...]
Drilling Down (Häftad)
avJoseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek
ISBN: 9781441976765 - UTGIVEN: 201109For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the[...]
