Joseph Tainter
Historical Limit — Complexity Collapse
"The Collapse of Complex Societies" (1988). Each marginal unit of complexity costs more energy to maintain than the previous.
Also in BST Theoretical Foundation
Donald HoffmanCognitive Limit — FBT TheoremKarl FristonCognitive Limit — Free Energy PrinciplePeter TurchinSocial Limit — Elite OverproductionStrauss & HoweCyclical Limit — Fourth TurningGaya HerringtonPhysical Limit — BAU2 CorrectionSeshat Databank / EMEWSEmpirical Bedrock + Genesis SimulatorSerge GalamSociophysics — Inflexible Minority TheoremDirk HelbingRecursive Collapse — FuturICT