ISBN:
0262032945
Language:
English
Pages:
285 p
,
ill
,
24cm
DDC:
303.49
Keywords:
Social prediction
;
Forecasting
;
Aufsatzsammlung - Prognose - Sozialwissenschaften
;
Aufsatzsammlung - Prognose - Sozialwissenschaften
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung - Prognose - Sozialwissenschaften
Abstract:
The river and the billiard ball : history, innovation, and the future / Peter Schwartz -- The future of population / Joel E. Cohen -- The future of energy from the perspective of the social sciences / Clark C. Abt -- Modeling climate change impacts and their related uncertainties / Stephen H. Schneider -- The world of work in the new millennium / Richard B. Freeman -- Threats to future effectiveness of monetary policy / Benjamin M. Friedman -- The architecture of government in the twenty-first century / Timothy Besley -- The cybernetic society : western future studies of the 1960s and 1970s and their predictions for the year 2000 / Alexander Schmidt-Gernig
Description / Table of Contents:
The river and the billiard ball : history, innovation, and the future / Peter Schwartz -- The future of population / Joel E. Cohen -- The future of energy from the perspective of the social sciences / Clark C. Abt -- Modeling climate change impacts and their related uncertainties / Stephen H. Schneider -- The world of work in the new millennium / Richard B. Freeman -- Threats to future effectiveness of monetary policy / Benjamin M. Friedman -- The architecture of government in the twenty-first century / Timothy Besley -- The cybernetic society : western future studies of the 1960s and 1970s and their predictions for the year 2000 / Alexander Schmidt-Gernig.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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