Peter Turchin

Cliodynamicist. Scientific Historian. Complexity theory for history.

Peter Turchin is a complexity scientist who works in the field of historical social science that he and his colleagues call: Cliodynamics

• 🔗 https://peterturchin.com
• 🔗 https://csh.ac.at/peter-turchin/ (academic)
• ✉️ [email protected] (via academic site)
• 🐦 https://x.com/Peter_Turchin - he's relatively active

Works

• Book: End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
• Ultrasociety
• Papers: Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate (2023)
  • Evidence for Primacy of Being thesis in that environmental shocks impacts is mediated by socio-cultural resiliency.

Links

• Cliodynamics
• Cultural Evolution - e.g. book Ultrasociety. Runs Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution.