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'''* Article: LePoire D. J. 2009. [[Exploration of Connections between Energy Use and Leadership Transitions]]. Systemic Transitions: Past, Present, and Future / Ed. by W. R. Thompson, pp. 205–222. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.'''

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=Summary=

"LePoire (2009: 217) offers an interesting frame on this problem by arguing for viewing history as a complex adaptive process in which succeeding phases of energy intensification over time have led to greater complexity. He thinks the succeeding phases are recognizable '''in five-fold expansions in energy intensity''' and dates them as follows: 

- civilization (3000 BCE–400 CE), 

- commerce (700–1720), 

- industrialization (1720–1950), and 

- knowledge-based (1950–?)." 

[https://www.sociostudies.org/almanac/articles/energy_kwaves_lead_economies_and_their_interpretationimplications/]

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