Peter Turchin’s State Collapse Formula

Jul 20th 2020 1:45am EDT

This has been on my mind lately. It is Peter Turchin’s formula of state collapse. Political Stress Index = Mass Mobilization Potential (MMP) x Elite Mobilization Potential (EMP) x State Fiscal Distress (SFD). Mass Mobilization Potential has three components: relative wages, urbanization rate and the effect of age structure. Basically, a measure of a surplus […]

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