End Times
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End Times
| Full title | End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration |
|---|---|
| Author | Peter Turchin |
| Published | 2023 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Peter Turchin’s cliodynamics applied to the present: elite overproduction, stagnating popular wellbeing and a state losing fiscal capacity as the three measurable drivers of political disintegration. A quantitative, falsifiable model of instability, which is rarer than the pattern-matching it is often lumped with. |
Where I heard about it
- @SpencrGreenberg’s thread — named in the replies to his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world really works?”, June 2025. Full set of replies: A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).
Connections
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Peter Turchin — the author.
- Institutions — what the model says is failing.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.