250 pages
English language
Published Aug. 10, 1990 by Cambridge University Press.
Joseph A. Tainter: The Collapse of complex societies (1990, Cambridge University Press)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-321-38673-1
- OCLC Number:
- 21815409
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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.
Subjects
- Civilization, Ancient
- Comparative civilization
- Civilization -- Philosophy