All Societies Die: How to Keep Hope Alive
All Societies Die -- Contents -- The Reality of Societal Death -- 1. All Societies Die -- 2. Is a Fall Really a Fall? -- 3. The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: The Greatest Story You've Never Heard -- 4. The End Comes to Byzantium -- 5. The Environmental Causes of Violence in the Middle East -- 6. The French Revolution: Fighting about Taxes at the Worst Possible Time -- 7. How States Actually Die: The Real-Life Death of Somalia -- 8. Somalia after the Fall -- 9. What Links These Stories? -- Tempting False Steps -- 10. Rethinking Ecological Catastrophe -- 11. Rethinking Moral Crisis -- Thinking Big About Thinking Big -- 12. Networks of Cooperation -- 13. Why Bigger Is Better -- 14. Legitimation: So Hard to Earn, So Precious to Have -- 15. Psychological Foundations of Societal Survival -- What Would Be Lost -- 16. Progress That Is Real: The Reduction of Poverty -- 17. Progress That Is Real: The Improvement in Health -- 18. Progress That Is Real: The Reduction of Violent Crime -- The Seeds of Trouble -- 19. The Motivation to Not Cooperate: The Origins of Civilization in Raiding -- 20. Primitive Accumulation Today: Raiding Is Not Dead -- 21. The Motivation to Not Cooperate: How Europe Historically Underdeveloped Much of the World -- 22. What Can Go Wrong When Western Companies Invest in Poor Nations -- 23. Cycles of Catastrophic Debt -- The Hidden Source of Strength -- 24. East Asian Secrets of Economic Growth -- 25. Big Government and Prosperity in the United States -- 26. The Miracle of Airports -- 27. The Origins of National Technological Advantage -- 28. The Economic Returns to Funding Scientific Research -- 29. The Tax Revolt: How the Conservative Middle Class Became the Revolutionary Class of Capitalism -- 30. Why Tax Cuts Do Not Create Jobs -- Crime, Corruption and Violence -- 31. The Explosion of Crime in the Global South.