Modeling Societies and Regimes in Human History

Present capabilities center around modeling major societies as a series of dynasties that rise and fall.

Present areas of research include:

• Rise and fall of dynasties and empires
• Cultural changes in time as a function of dynastic lifecycles
• Comparison of coexisting dynasties
• Modeling societies as a series of dynasties (repeating dynastic lifecycles)
• US transition to sustainable energy sources
• Progression of major (Hewett-Hubbert) regimes
• Interaction between major regimes
• Interaction between minor ("Gibbs") regimes and major regimes
• Transition among regimes
• Changes within a society in reaction to regime progression
• Managing and transcending beyond the rise and fall pattern

Publications

• PHE Case Study #1 (pdf)—Colorado San Juans mining region Modeled Via a Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution (1997); this is also found in PHE, 2nd Ed., above.
• PHE Case Study #2 (pdf)—Rise and Fall of Spain's Golden World, an expanded case study concerning Spain and its New World territories.
• Physical History and Economics, Second Edition — Physical History and Economics, 2nd Edition, a mini-treatise (2009)
• Promotional Sheet and Outline (pdf)

OTHER:

• History + Physics = Sustainability—an introduction of the relavance of physical history to sustainability and how this can open up new opportunities for the field of history for research andin the classroom.