{"id":20,"date":"2005-02-01T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/02\/01\/collapse-how-societies-choose-to-f"},"modified":"2005-02-01T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T15:52:40","slug":"collapse-how-societies-choose-to-fail-or-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/02\/01\/collapse-how-societies-choose-to-fail-or-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a26'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By GREGG EASTERBROOK, New York Times, &#8220;Sunday Books&#8221;, Published: January 30, 2005<\/p>\n<p>COLLAPSE<br \/>\nHow Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.<br \/>\nBy Jared Diamond.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;Guns [, Germs and Steel]&#8221; asked why the West is atop the food chain<br \/>\nof nations. Its conclusion, that Western success was a coincidence<br \/>\ndriven by good luck, has proven extremely influential in academia, as<br \/>\nthe view is quintessentially postmodern. Now &#8221;Collapse&#8221; posits that<br \/>\nthe Western way of life is flirting with the sudden ruin that caused<br \/>\npast societies like the Anasazi and the Mayans to vanish. Because this<br \/>\nview, too, is exactly what postmodernism longs to hear, &#8221;Collapse&#8221;<br \/>\nmay prove influential as well. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Site may require registration.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By GREGG EASTERBROOK, New York Times, &#8220;Sunday Books&#8221;, Published: January 30, 2005 COLLAPSE How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. By Jared Diamond. &#8230;&#8221;Guns [, Germs and Steel]&#8221; asked why the West is atop the food chain of nations. Its conclusion, that Western success was a coincidence driven by good luck, has proven extremely influential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}