Errata: Civilizations: Organisms or Systems? Civilizations behave as adaptive systems, becoming unstable when a top-heavy bureaucracy makes excessive demands on the productive sector; breakdowns result from chance concatenations of mutually reinforcing processes, not from senility or decadence
Volume:
68
Language:
english
Journal:
American Scientist
DOI:
10.2307/27850127
Date:
November, 1980
File:
PDF, 277 KB
english, 1980