Carolina QuotesStructural-demographic theory... was proposed by Jack Goldstone and further developed and tested by... investigators, including [S.] Nefedov, Turchin, [and] Korotayev et al.
Peter Turchin Connected to the Carolinas
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Introduction
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- The 2010 structural-demographic forecast for the 2010–2020 decade (Aug 17, 2020)
- year
- 2010
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