Can Math Predict the End Times?

Peter Turchin is a social scientist at the University of Connecticut who studies the math of social integration and disintegration. Peter created the field of Cliodynamics and delves into how he predicts the trajectory of social cohesion based on historical data from 200 societies, why elite overproduction is bad, and how we can avoid disaster by learning from the past. 00:00 - Intro 00:58 - History & Predicting Political Outcomes 13:54 - Four Forms of Social Power 19:39 - Like and Subscribe 19:50 - Elite Overproduction & the Wealth Pump 28:36 - The Political Stress Index 31:02 - How Do We Avoid Disaster? 39:24 - Learning From Our Past, Working For Our Future End Times - https://amzn.to/3NSLqJT Follow Peter Turchin: https://peterturchin.com |   / peter_turchin   Follow Andrew Yang:   / andrewyang   | https://andrewyang.com ---- Subscribe to Forward: Apple — https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id... Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/25cFfnG...