Archive - Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin

Supercharging historical data collection

Nov 22 •

What Is a City? Archaeological and Historical Perspectives

Nov 19 •

The Structural-Demographic State of America III

Health and Health Insurance

Nov 15 •

New databases and testing theories of social evolution

Nov 13 •

Revolt of the Credentialed Precariat

Mamdani Wins in New York City

Nov 7 •

The "Perception Gap"

Is the U.S. economy "doing spectacularly well"?

Nov 1 •

October 2025

Complexity Science in Vienna

Oct 29 •

The Structural-Demographic State of America II

Well-being/Immiseration

Oct 25 •

Yet Another Proxy for Immiseration

Car loan delinquency rate

Oct 22 •

The Pivot of History

How Horse Riding Became Possible — and Changed the World

Oct 17 •

The Structural-Demographic State of America

The Wealth Pump

Oct 13 •

What I Am Working On

Oct 10 •

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