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BEST BOOKS 2023: THE GUARDIAN * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES 'A pre-eminent digital-age seer. . . a great collected narrative of human hope and human failure' Tim Adams, Observer 'Extraordinary. . . the culmination of many years of highly original and innovative work' Niall Ferguson, Bloomberg One of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time offers a brilliant new theory of how society works What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power? For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no-one else. Assembling vast databases mined from 10,000 years of human activity, and then developing new models, he has transformed the way we learn from the past. End Times is the result: a ground-breaking account of how society works. The lessons, he argues, are clear. When the balance of power between the ruling class and the majority tips too far in favour of elites, income inequality surges. The rich get richer, the poor further impoverished. As more people try to join the elite, frustration with the establishment brims over, often wit

Author

Peter Turchin

Publisher

Random House

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141999296

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.4 / 5 (197 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14