Joseph Anthony Tainter (born December 8, 1949) is an American anthropologist and historian. Tainter studied anthropology at the University of California...

Meadows & Jørgen Randers (1972), René Dumont (1973), Hans Jonas (1979), Joseph Tainter (1988), Al Gore (1992), Hubert Reeves (2003), Richard Posner (2004)...

Solving, and Sustainable Societies" is a paper on energy economics by Joseph Tainter from 1996. It focuses on the energy cost of problem solving, and the...

61–95. doi:10.1017/S1361491604001388. hdl:10419/47594. JSTOR 41378413. Tainter, Joseph (1988) "The Collapse of Complex Societies" (Princeton Uni Press) The...

Tainter can refer to: Charles Sumner Tainter (1854-1940), engineer and inventor Jeremiah Burnham Tainter (1836-1920), engineer Joseph Tainter (born 1949)...

are joined by experts in cliodynamics and study of complex systems. Joseph Tainter frames societal collapse in The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988)...

Suzuki James Hillman James Parks Morton Nathan Gardels Wes Jackson Joseph Tainter Richard Heinberg James Woolsey Vijay Vaitheeswaran Brock Dolman Stephen...

parasitic elite, leading to the rise of internal and external proletariats. Joseph Tainter in The Collapse of Complex Societies suggested that there were diminishing...

with others. Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies — Joseph Tainter Conflict escalation Earth's atmosphere Focused improvement Leverage...

Elliott connects 'Dark Ages' to the "Myth of Progress", also observed by Joseph Tainter, who says, "There is genuine bias against so-called 'Dark Ages'" because...

Peter Gleick, James Howard Kunstler, Heidi Cullen, Alex Steffen and Joseph Tainter. It ended with a quote from writer Alex Steffen, saying: Kids born today...

bombing raids over Japan Zachary Sharp Raychael Stine David E. Stuart Joseph Tainter Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, Antarctic researcher, microbial ecologist Iain...

bankruptcy in Kodak as a quoted example. Hubbert curve Societal collapse Joseph Tainter "The Seneca Effect". Business Insider. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 20 January...

Evidence also fits the cycle of Mayan and Cambodian collapse too. Joseph Tainter suggests that diminishing returns of the EROI is a chief cause of the...

about its own collapse. Non-anarchist writers such as Daniel Quinn, Joseph Tainter, and Richard Manning also hold this view. Some members of the Men Going...

factors is responsible. General systems collapse theory, pioneered by Joseph Tainter, proposes that societal collapse results from an increase in social...

Heinberg also relies upon work done by Joseph Tainter and his 1988 book, The Collapse of Complex Societies. Tainter's main thesis is that complex societies...

Oxford University Press, January 2000) ISBN 0-19-500260-1 pp. 7, 30 Joseph Tainter (1988). The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge University Press...

ISBN 978-0385509657. John A. Leslie (1996) The End of the World ISBN 0-415-14043-9. Joseph Tainter (1990) The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge University Press...

to Joseph Tainter, who argued that ancients civilisations collapsed because they encountered diminishing marginal returns on complexity.  Tainter did...

and medical statistician Hans Rosling questioned its inevitability. Joseph Tainter asserts that science has diminishing marginal returns[incomplete short...

creativity does not show accelerating returns, but in fact, as suggested by Joseph Tainter in his The Collapse of Complex Societies, a law of diminishing returns...

competition with other groups is dependent upon cooperation within. Joseph Tainter (the author of The Collapse of Complex Societies) argued that as complex...

to offer adequate solutions in the face of complex societal changes. Joseph Tainter posits that a collapsing complex society becomes smaller, simpler, and...

history Suetonius Ronald Syme (1903–1989) – Classical period Tacitus Joseph Tainter (born 1949) Lily Ross Taylor (1886–1969) - Roman history Thucydides...

over two millennia in this environment was "amazing." Anthropologist Joseph Tainter wrote extensively about the collapse of the Southern Lowland Maya in...

Cork taint is a broad term referring to an off-odor and off-flavor wine fault arising from the presence of 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA), a chemical compound...

Colorado River, the Rio Puerco, and the Rio Grande. Anthropologist Joseph Tainter deals at length with the structure and decline of Chaco civilization...

Suzuki, James Hillman, James Parks Morton, Nathan Gardels, Wes Jackson, Joseph Tainter, Richard Heinberg, James Woolsey, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Stephen Schneider...

alternative to a price system, or money method of regulating society. Joseph Tainter suggests that a diminishing ratio of energy returned on energy invested...