Joseph A. Tainter

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Joseph A. Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge University Press, 1988 (PDF)

Joseph A. Tainter: The Energy-Complexity Spiral, (PDF of Presentation)

Joe Tainter: “Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification” | The Great Simplification #27, YouTube, 2022-07-14

The Energy–Complexity Spiral, Drilling Down, 2011-01-01

Temis G. Taylor and Joseph A. Tainter: The Nexus of Population, Energy, Innovation, and Complexity,  the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2016-09 (JSTOR)  

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