The Hope Axis #41 Eli Dourado - Avoiding Societal Collapse: Complexity, and the Path to Abundance

Описание: This week on The Hope Axis, I’m happy to welcome back Eli Dourado. Eli has joined us before in Interintellect salons, and now he’s on the podcast to revisit some of the ideas we talked about in the past. He previously worked at the Abundance Institute and is now the Head of Strategic Investments at Astra. We talk about abundance, progress, and what it takes to help the world flourish a little bit more. Hope you enjoy.

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Show Notes:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Guest Introduction
02:41 Why Joseph Tainter
10:35 The Great Stagnation
16:03 Imagining Someone in 1866
17:38 Hungary
23:14 The Fragility of Economic Growth
26:52 Complexity
30:46 Chernobyl as The Cause of USSR's Collapse
33:22 The Uneven Stagnation, Explaining Mismanagement
40:06 The Nature of The Elites
43:55 Staving off the Collapse, History and the Future
50:55 Diminishing Marginal Returns
56:14 How to Rebuild Faith in the System

Books, Essays & References Mentioned:
The Collapse of Complex Societies — Joseph Tainter
The Great Stagnation — Tyler Cowen
End Times — Peter Turchin
Collapse — Jared Diamond
Cliodynamics
Total Factor Productivity
The Roman Empire
The Soviet Union
Industrial Revolution
Diminishing marginal returns
Resource subsidies
Technological progress
Nihilism in stagnating societies
Expansion into the solar system
Complexity budget