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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.[1] 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,[2] and of the Western Roman Empire, in terms of network theory, energy economics and complex ...more

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	Collapse of Complex Societies 4.16 avg rating — 913 ratings — published 1988 — 7 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 4.25 avg rating — 28 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
	Collapse of Complex Societies 1ed (New Studies in Archaeology) by Joseph A. Tainter, Cambridge University Press it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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
	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
	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
	Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change by Alf Hornborg (Editor), John Robert McNeill (Editor), Joan Martínez-Alier (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2007 — 5 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
	The Way the Wind Blows: Climate Change, History, and Human Action by Roderick J. McIntosh (Editor), Joseph A. Tainter (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 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
	Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies by Ronald K. Faulseit (Editor), J. Heath Anderson (Contributor), Christina Conlee (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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

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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.”
― Joseph A. Tainter

tags: complexity

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“In a time when, as Woodson puts it, 'book sales trump the quality of ideas...”
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