End times: elites, counter-elites, and the path of political disintegration

Part I. The cliodynamics of power. Elites, elite overproduction, and the road to crisis

Stepping back : lessons of history

Part II. The drivers of instability. "The peasants are revolting"

The revolutionary troops

The ruling class

Why is is America a plutocracy?

Part III. Crisis and aftermath. State breakdown

Histories of the near future

The wealth pump and the future of democracy

Appendix. A new science of history

A historical macroscope

The structural dynamic approach.