🚨Announcing a brand new living literature review🚨
Existential Crunch, by , accessibly synthesizes academic research about social collapse!
The first post surveys the major schools of thought: Gibbon, Malthus, Tainter, Turchin, and more!
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What's a living literature review?
For us, it's an online collection of short, accessible articles that synthesize academic research, updated as the lit evolves, and written by a single qualified individual (for example, has published related academic work).
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Here's part of a thread from Florian announcing the project, including link to subscribe to the substack!
Congrats and excited to see where this goes (pretty different from my usual reading material!)
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I am happy to present the first post of this series. It is meant to give a general overview about #collapse research: What are the main schools of collapse research? What even is a collapse? And what causes it? existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/mapping-out-
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