Peter Turchin

Peter Turchin

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Peter Turchin's Interviews

Adaam Levin-Areddy + Vanessa M. Quirk & Peter Turchin 17 Oct 2022 • EN

The Coming Collapse (w/ Peter Turchin)

Scientist-turned-historian Peter Turchin is best known for a dire prediction he made in 2010: we were headed for serious unrest, circa 2020. Peter came to this (as-so-happened) accurate prediction by treating the soft science of history like a hard one — what he calls cliodynamics. He and his team quantified indicators

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Dan Snow & Daniel Hoyer + Peter Turchin 09 Dec 2020 • EN

Big Data and History

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Dan Snow & Peter Turchin + Dan Hoyer 09 Dec 2020 • EN

Big Data and History

Dan Hoyer and Peter Turchin joined me on the podcast to talk about the new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics, which uses the tools of complexity science and cultural evolution to study the dynamics of historical empires and modern nation-states. Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get access to hundreds of histor

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Julia Galef + Massimo Pigliucci & Peter Turchin 28 Feb 2010 • EN

Rationally Speaking #3 - Can History Be a Science?

Our guest, Prof. Peter Turchin from the University of Connecticut, joins Massimo and Julia to discuss whether history can be studied and understood in a scientific manner. In an article in Nature (3 July 2008) on what he termed “cliodynamics,” he discusses the possibility of turning history into a science. In it, he pr

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