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Michael A Alexander's avatar

I look into issues of inequality and social collapse in a US context, but go much deeper, having developed a rough sense on how this happens and how one can address it (it's not easy).

I start with Turchin's secular cycle as the framework around which I build the model. My take is a bit different than his (I see 3 cycles; he sees 2).

https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/the-american-secular-cycles

https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/a-critical-review-of-end-times-by

Inequality leads to elite overproduction, rising political tensions (measured by the PSI indicator) which eventually leads to crisis, and some sort of resolution, which often involves violence.

https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/the-current-crisis-era

Inequality is the key way the secular cycle can be tracked. I have a cultural evolutionary model for income inequality in the US since 1913.

https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/how-economic-culture-evolves

Cultural evolution is a second major tool I use for this work

https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/how-cultural-evolution-works

This structural take indicates that politics is a central driver of the cycle. For this I use Stephen Skowronek's Political Time model.

https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-a-political-dispensation

Anyway would like to discuss this more with you

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Zoheyra Bent Bashir Borouis's avatar

Very interesting topic! Thanks a lot for sharing this articles.

By the choice of the picture do you mean that inequality is an issue for a planetary society to address the way it is adressed by local societies? Or that the french society needed to better integrate the muslim algerian group to be part of french society so that inequality would be solved? There are fascinating equations to be hypothetically solved in either questions for that to become, or have become a reality.

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