Re: Societal collapse

Posted by Jochen Fromm-5 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Societal-collapse-tp7597392p7597393.html

Here is for example a remarkably simple model of wealth distribution and phase transitions in economic systems from Bruce Boghosian at Tufts University

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/

-J

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From: Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]>

Date: 6/23/20 21:51 (GMT+01:00)

To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>

Subject: [FRIAM] Societal collapse

Is it possible to create agent-based models of societal collapse? This Nature article argues human societies have mind- boggling complexity, but I am not so sure if it is impossible. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00436-3

-J.

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