Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict soci

Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict soci

Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.

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Can we understand important social issues by studying individual personalities and decisions? Or are societies somehow more than the people in them? Sociologist