End Times av Peter Turchin

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<p><b>THE THOUGHT BOOK OF THE YEAR, <i>THE TIMES</i></b></p><p><br><b>A <i>GUARDIAN </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><br><b>''<i>Game of Thrones</i>-style intra-elite conflict meets big data'' <i>TLS</i></b><br><br><b>''Extraordinary. . . the culmination of many years of highly original and innovative work'' <i>Bloomberg</i></b><br><br><b>One of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time offers a</b><b> brilliant new theory of how society works </b><br><br><i>What 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?</i><br><br>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. <i>End Times</i> is the result: a ground-breaking account of how society works.<br><br>The lessons, he a