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The Seneca Effect - Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Seneca Effect - Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: The Frontiers Collection
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The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the
ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is
of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes
the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is
typically sudden and often unexpected, like the proverbial "house
of cards." But why are such collapses so common, and what generates
them? Several books have been published on the subject, including
the well known "Collapse" by Jared Diamond (2005), "The collapse of
complex societies" by Joseph Tainter (1998) and "The Tipping
Point," by Malcom Gladwell (2000). Why The Seneca Effect? This book
is an ambitious attempt to pull these various strands together by
describing collapse from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint. The reader
will discover how collapse is a collective phenomenon that occurs
in what we call today "complex systems," with a special emphasis on
system dynamics and the concept of "feedback." From this
foundation, Bardi applies the theory to real-world systems, from
the mechanics of fracture and the collapse of large structures to
financial collapses, famines and population collapses, the fall of
entire civilzations, and the most dreadful collapse we can imagine:
that of the planetary ecosystem generated by overexploitation and
climate change. The final objective of the book is to describe a
conclusion that the ancient stoic philosophers had already
discovered long ago, but that modern system science has
rediscovered today. If you want to avoid collapse you need to
embrace change, not fight it. Neither a book about doom and gloom
nor a cornucopianist's dream, The Seneca Effect goes to the heart
of the challenges that we are facing today, helping us to manage
our future rather than be managed by it.
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