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quarta-feira, 28 de abril de 2010

O Colapso das Sociedades Complexas

O livro "The Collapse of Complex Societies" de Joseph Tainter (1988) aponta que o colapso das sociedades ocorre baseado em quatro axiomas:

1. human societies are problem-solving organizations;
2. sociopolitical systems require energy for their maintenance;
3. increased complexity carries with it increased costs per capita; and
4. investment in sociopolitical complexity as a problem-solving response reaches a point of declining marginal returns.

Maiores informações:
a) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse
b) http://books.google.com.br/books?id=YdW5wSPJXIoC&dq=%22The+Collapse+of+Complex+Societies%22&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=pt-BR&ei=JzrYS_6xOISRuAfMpZ20Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

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