The distribution of living languages is investigated and scaling relations are found for the diversity of languages as … simulations of fragmentation dynamics where similar scalings appear. The language size distribution is also studied and shown to …

, this type of inquiry is hardly novel. Marxists have long searched for objective signs of capitalist collapse, preliminary … capitalists’ ability to rule – as well as the possibility that this system of rule will collapse. Our inquiry seeks, first, to …

: acceptance of an inevitable societal collapse (as a feature, and not a bug, of complexity) and managing such a collapse to …

. Whether collapse or unimaginable riches through breakthrough technological progress will be the future, these scenarios …

selfsimilarities and structural differences in the operation and different paths of disintegration, collapse and transformations of …

retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate … induce, a collapse, depending on the initial conditions and the size and duration of the shock. Awareness campaigns may also … trigger a collapse by introducing undesirable expectational feedbacks. …

Easter Island’s ecosystem was unusually fragile, and consequently, in the long-term, decline and collapse was inevitable. The …

retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate … induce, a collapse, depending on the initial conditions and the size and duration of the shock. Awareness campaigns may also … trigger a collapse by introducing undesirable expectational feedbacks. …