#1187 Peter Turchin: The Collapse of Complex Societies, Elite Overproduction, and Social Unrest
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Peter Turchin. He is a meritus professor at the University of Connecticut. He's also a project leader at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.
And today we're going to talk uh a little bit about some of the main topics he's been working on throughout his uh life so uh uh but he's I also want to mention that his latest book is The Great Holocene Transformation. So Dr. Turchin welcome to the show it's a pleasure to have you one. Thank you glad to be here so I I would like to ask you first and I hope we have time to get
a little bit more into detail here, but uh what causes political communities to cohere and what causes them to fall apart? Because this is something that you've worked on. Well that's a huge question. So you probably want to break it up into um into smaller uh questions. Let's start by talking about the um you know uh about what causes
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