Indeed, in my own PhD research at the University of Sussex I explored the direct link between class dynamics, inequality, overconsumption, and social instability in past empires, leading to past collapses and genocides - an area that remains under-explored in Tainter's work, and at least tentatively addressed by the HANDY model.
Then, extrapolating from past collapses, they argue that recent growth rates should not encourage optimism.
Last February, Randolph tried to get past the Collapse of '07 by acting as if the Mets were too professional to talk much about such awful events.
Connections are the most critical elements of any precast structure, because in past major collapse of precast structure took place because of connection failure.
In precast concrete construction, connections are the most critical elements of the structure, because in past major collapse of precast building took place because of connection failure.
High-resolution sonar mapping and remotely operated submersibles reveal the true extent of a past slope collapse offshore from Goleta, California, near Santa Barbara.
Further, I am troubled by the danger of suggesting to the public that someone (particularly me) has a crystal ball tuned to a five-year future such forecasting paved the way to Hell for this past market collapse.
The truth, of course, is that it takes only a single incomprehensible headline to thin the veil, draw us nearer to the darkness of our past, and collapse 50 years into the space of a dismal, deadly week.
The car market, fueled by too-easy credit in the past, has collapsed.
All morning barefoot children have been racing past us, collapsing over the line in a flurry of exhausted bodies.
