Pivots

'That's Interesting!: Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology' Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1971 1 (2) 309-344 'That's Classic!' The Phenomenology and Rhetoric of Successful Social Theories' Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1986 16 (3) 285-301 'APHORISMS AND CLICHÉS: The Generation and Dissipation of Conceptual Charisma' Annual Review of Sociology 1999 25 (1) 245-269

Making Decisions (2nd edition), Chichester: John Wiley 1991 (1st edition 1971). Understanding Uncertainty, Chichester: John Wiley 2014. 'Subjective Probability, Decision Analysis and their Legal Consequences', Journal of Royal Statistical Society A, 1991  154 (1) 83-9. Adrian Smith, 'A conversation with Dennis Lindley' Statistical Science 1995, 10 (3) 305-19.

The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge University Press 1988 Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of civilisations collapsing and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He develops a theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies - societies collapse when they hit a point of rapidly declining marginal returns on their investments in problem-solving capacity - evaluating…

Robert William Fogel, Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1964. 'As if or not as if: the economic historian as Hamlet' Australian Economic History Review 7 (1) 1967 [My review of reviews] Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. with  Stanley L. Engerman, Little, Brown and Company, 1974;…