The paper aims to explore what it means for something to be a social cycle, for a theory to be a social cycle theory, and to offer a suggestion for a simple, yet, we believe, fundamentally grounded schema for categorizing them. We show that a broad range of cycle theories can be described within...

In this paper, we consider the stationary distribution of the facultative population model with a degenerate noise. The contributions of this paper lie in: (a) providing sufficient conditions which allow the noise intensity matrix to be degenerate, and, in particular, guarantee the existence and...