The Seneca Effect Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid /
The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is typically sudden and...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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Σειρά: | The Frontiers Collection,
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction
- Seneca's times: The fall of the Roman Empire
- The Seneca collapse as a critical phenomenon: why do things break?
- Networks: the Seneca collapse of complex structures
- Fast and Furious Seneca: Financial collapses
- Destroying what keeps you alive: the tragedy of the commons
- The World as a Giant Bathtub: the Seneca Collapse of Complex Systems
- World models and the collapse of everything
- The dark heart of the fossil empires
- Malthus was an optimist: famines and population collapses
- The Seneca asteroid: climate change as the ultimate collapse
- Managing complex systems: how to pull the levers in the right direction
- Conclusion: How to euthanize an empire.