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Peter Turchin

Connecticut, Vienna
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Cliodynamics, Social and Cultural Evolution Project Leader, Complexity Science Hub, Vienna Blog: peterturchin.substack.com/
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Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin

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By Peter Turchin
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I recently wrote a commentary on an interesting book, Modeling Religion: Simulating the Transformation of Worldviews, Lifeways, and Civilizations, by Wesley J. Wildman and F. LeRon Shults (published in 2024). This work can be classified as “transdisciplinary” because the authors cross multiple disciplinary boundaries, romping over such fields as philosophy, demography, and computational science. And they ask “Big Questions” that, indeed, require a transdisciplinary approach.
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Why Is College So Expensive?

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By Peter Turchin
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In the last two issues of Global Macro Update, Ed d’Agostino has been exploring the question of why the cost of higher education has outpaced the rate of inflation — by a lot (see Why Is College So Expensive? and Is College Worth it?). Both Ed and his colleague, John Mauldin, have been aware of my work since the publication of End Times, and both have used structural-demographic theory (SDT) to understand how the world around us is changing.
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“Our Honest Truth”—“Their Lying Propaganda”

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By Peter Turchin
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Somebody asked me recently, why do I devote so much space on this Substack to the War in Ukraine? My overall goal in this blog is to understand the world, in which we live, through the lens of Cliodynamics. At the global level, the most momentous shift, which we are living through, is the waning of the hegemonic power of America and the possibility that world geopolitics is transforming into a multipolar configuration.
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