The Collapse of Complex Societies

[Country]

http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/in-depth/joseph-tainter-phd/the-collapse-of-complex-societies

[Nickelless]

Coming soon to an industrialized North American country near us...

[johnbrickner]

Great book. We should all read it. If you can find it.

[Hawkeye]

Sounds like an interesting book. I'll have to pick it up on Amazon. (I occasionally use coinstar to dump some zincs and pick up a fee free amazon gift card which allows me to buy interesting stuff like this)

[Mossy]

"Guns, germs, and steel" by Jared Diamond is also a good book. I'm going to try to get one of his other books, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" some day.

[johnbrickner]

I've read enough of the "Collapse" books (including the fitctional one by Rawles, Patriot) to have a decent grasp of our pending possible future. I'm now looking for the "Post" (well beyond the initial) collapse type to get a better vision of this scenario. Currently reading Power Down by Heinberg.

I find work by Dmitry Orlov interesting but have not read his book Reinventing Collapse. He's into things like shallow draft concrete boats and saving brass nails (See his work- Sailing craft for a post-collapse world).

Here is a youtube with the popular anamated people that did the Ben Bernank thing, explaining more of Dmitry's views: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCasHOQYYzs

Currently looking forthe book After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies.

And found this website with potential http://www.postcollapse.org/org/index.html

Forgot to add Fleeing Vesuvius to the must read list. Another great one.