A survey of complex (post-hunter-gatherer, hierarchical) societies and their collapse, and the various theories proposed to account for collapse. The author develops his own theory based on the increasing cost of managing complexity that acheives decreasing marginal benefits.
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1988 · Cambridge University Press
250 pp · EN
9780521340922
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1990 · Cambridge University Press
250 pp · EN
9780521386739
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2013 · Le Retour aux Sources
EN
9782355120510
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2021 · Cambridge University Press
EN
9780511817168
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