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Professor Joseph Tainter is an American anthropologist and historian studied anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975. As of 2012 he holds a professorship in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University. In this interview Professor Tainter discusses the thesis of his widely acclaimed work “The Collapse of Complex Societies”, 25 years after its publication in 1988. His book is among great classics of the study of collapse. In my view a work whose quality and relevance is comparable to Limits to Growth.

Grégoire Chambaz est chargé de recherche à Unisanté (Lausanne) et rédacteur adjoint à la revue Militaire Suisse (RMS). Dans cette intervention, il partage sa synthèse des travaux de l'anthropologue Joseph Tainter sur l'évolution et l'effondrement des sociétés complexes.