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Joseph A. Tainter

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December 08, 1949

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Joseph Tainter studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley 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. His previous positions include Project Leader of Cultural Heritage Research, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

Tainter has written or edited many articles and monographs. His arguably best-known work, The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), examines the collapse of Maya and Chacoan civilizations, and of the Western Roman Empire, in terms of network theory, energy economics and complexity th ...more

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	The Collapse of Complex Societies 4.17 avg rating — 1,145 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drilling Down: The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma by Joseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change by Alf Hornborg (Editor), John Robert McNeill (Editor), Joan Martínez-Alier (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Themes in Southwest Prehistory by George J. Gumerman (Editor), E. Charles Adams (Contributor), Linda S. Cordell (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Supply Side Sustainability by Timothy F.H. Allen, Joseph A. Tainter, Thomas W. Hoekstra 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies by Ronald K. Faulseit (Editor), J. Heath Anderson (Contributor), Christina Conlee (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecology, Diversity And Sustainability Of The Middle Rio Grande Basin by Joseph A. Tainter, Deborah M. Finch (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest by Joseph A. Tainter, Bonnie Bagley Tainter really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	复杂社会的崩溃 by Joseph A. Tainter, 邵旭东 (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Archeology of the Farmington Sector of the Elena Gallegos Project 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.”
― Joseph A. Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies

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“Happily, solving problems by intensifying production and increasing complexity does not always yield catastrophic results.”
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