Review: The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter (1988)
I will be completely honest with you guys, this is one of those books that I mostly skimmed (as opposed to read), so this is going to be one of those low-quality reviews as I can't really comment too much on the quality of the arguments.
I'd heard about this book after reading Jared Diamond's Collapse. I think that Tainter's collapse was more dry, and was probably more of an academic paper, whereas Diamond's Collapse was more of a book that I could enjoy.
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I'd heard about this book after reading Jared Diamond's Collapse. I think that Tainter's collapse was more dry, and was probably more of an academic paper, whereas Diamond's Collapse was more of a book that I could enjoy.
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