"An unrelenting cost of any complex society is maintenance of 
legitimacy or investment in coercion which require constant 
modification of resources."   Tainter, p 28

"Under a situation of declining marginal returns collapse may be the 
most appropriate response." Tainter, p 33

The Localization Reader, edited by Raymond De Young and Thomas 
Princen, MIT Press, 2012.



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