Physical History and Economics

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Research > Areas > History

Modeling Societies and Regimes in Human History

• US transition to sustainable energy sources
• Progression of major (Hewett-Hubbert) regimes
• Interaction between major regimes
• Interaction between minor ("Gibbs") regimes and major regimes
• Transition among regimes
• Changes within a society in reaction to regime progression

Publications

• PHE Case Study #1 (pdf)—Colorado San Juans mining region Modeled Via a Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution (1997); this is also found in PHE, 2nd Ed., above.
• PHE Case Study #2 (pdf)—Rise and Fall of Spain's Golden World, an expanded case study concerning Spain and its New World territories.
• Physical History and Economics, Second Edition