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Welcome to the Societal Collapse Research Reading Room

Research Papers

  • The Unintended Consequences of Increasing Complexity
  • Slouching Towards Systemic Crisis
  • Complexity and Collapse
  • Historical Examples of Collapse

Recommended Books


  • The Upside of Down, by Thomas Homer Dixon
  • Understanding Collapse, by Guy Middleton
  • Why Nations Fail, by Acemoglu and Robinson
  • The Great Degeneration, by Niall Ferguson
  • The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, by Paul Kennedy
  • War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires, by Peter Turchin
  • The Rise and Decline of Nations, by Mancur Olson
  • The Collapse of Complex Societies, by Joseph Tainter
  • The Seneca Effect, by Ugo Bardi

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