Description: About the Book : One of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time offers a brilliant new theory of how society worksWhat leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power?For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no-one else. Assembling vast databases mined from 10,000 years of human activity, and then developing new models, he has transformed the way we learn from the past. End Times is the result: a ground-breaking account of how society works.The lessons, he argues, are clear. When the balance of power between the ruling class and the majority tips too far in favour of elites, income inequality surges. The rich get richer, the poor further impoverished. As more people try to join the elite, frustration with the establishment brims over, often with disastrous consequences. Elite overproduction led to state breakdown in imperial China, in medieval France, in the American Civil War - and it is happening now.But while we are far along the path toward violent political rupture, Turchin's models also light the way to a brighter future. Drawing insight from those occasions in history where the balance was restored, End Times also points towards a different future: an escape from the patterns of the past.
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Type: Novel
Publication Name: Penguin Random House
Actual ISBN: 978-0141999289
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Young Adults
Book Title: End Times : Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Future Studies, History & Theory, Curricula, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, American Government / General, Political Ideologies / Democracy, United States / General
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Education, History
Item Weight: 20.5 Oz
Author: Peter Turchin
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
