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Une lecture passionnante pour décrypter l’instabilité des systèmes politiques, aujourd’hui de nos démocraties. Quatre facteurs structurels à l’œuvre: appauvrissement des classes populaires, surproduction des élites, mauvaise situation économique, crise géopolitique. Lire Turchin.

About half-way through -- and enjoying it greatly!

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Interesting data and observations survivingchurch.org/2025/04/07/the…

Branko, I think this whole discussion is misguided. Rules should be made and applied to increase people's well-being, not the other way around. I am not saying that such an approach makes finding the right outcome easier, but that it should be the governing principle.

Center of The Maze Dr. Steve Keen As it will be a while before I can ingest the book, what is the take-home message? Is it that Noah Smith 🐇 is wrong to include in his list of dire outcomes a sovereign default?

Interesting!

Peter Turchin Back during the 1990s Russia phase, there was actually an op-ed somewhere by Rees-Mogg that ALSO argued that the social collapses last about 10 years - specifically citing Napoleon and predicting that whoever is in power by 2001 would lead a restructure.

Sounds like a useful counterbalance to the mainstream media story the307.substack.com/p/ukrainian-po…

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Will the MAGA Revolution succeed in reshaping the institutional make-up of the USA? BBC thinks not: "Trump's efforts so far may end up being less permanent. Without the support of new laws passed by Congress, many of his sweeping reforms could be wiped away by a future

Orlando furioso in 21 century bbc.com/news/world-eur…