About The Project
This project is Scaling in Human Societies, a Living Literature Review of topics related to how cities, nations, and civilization as a whole develop with size. Our goal is to present research broadly related to scaling in a way that is comprehensive, up-to-date, understandable to a layperson, and relevant to researchers and policymakers.
Funding
This project is generously supported by a Living Literature Review grant from Open Philanthropy. Open Philanthropy does not exercise editorial control over this project, and no content here should be construed as representing Open Philanthropy’s views.
About Me
This Living Literature Review is prepared by Michael Goff. I received a Ph. D. in Mathematics from University of Washington and did a postdoc at Vanderbilt University. For most of the past decade, I have been working on energy and environmental policy at Urban Cruise Ship, with a stint at The Breakthrough Institute.
I also have a personal blog at Substack, on which I write almost every week on a variety of topics.