Peter Turchin
Historian who studied elite overproduction as a driver of historical crises, looking at events like the fall of the Roman Republic and the French Revolution.
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Historian who coined the term 'cliometrics' for the quantitative study of history, illustrating the creation of new vocabulary for new concepts.
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Collaborator with Jack Goldstone on a piece about historical cycles of inequality and polarization.
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Predictive History
Historian who studied elite overproduction as a driver of historical crises, looking at events like the fall of the Roman Republic and the French Revolution.
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Predictive History
Mentioned for his idea of 'elite overproduction' as a cause for civil war.