[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> The short of it: Turchin advocates for a field of 'cliodynamics' which tries to apply math to meaningfully describe and predict social trends, especially large ones such as collapse.

I seem to remember that cliodynamics is really Asimov's psychohistory, but pursued in ernest, no?

[kipchak]

Pretty much, he wrote an article comparing the two a while ago.

http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/psychohistory-and-cliod...