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The will to predict : orchestrating the future through science / Eglė Rindzevičiūtė

Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė [Verfasser]

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xv, 286 pages) : Illustrations (black and white).

Cornell scholarship online

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-5017-6978-8 ; 978-1-50-176977-1

 

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The logic of scientific expertise cannot be properly understood without knowing the conceptual and institutional history of scientific prediction. Predictions of future population, economic growth, environmental change, and scientific and technological innovation have shaped much of twentieth and twenty-first-century politics and social life, as well as government policies. Today, such predictions are more necessary than ever as the world undergoes dramatic environmental, political, and technological change. But what does it mean to predict scientifically? What are the limits of scientific prediction and what are its effects on governance, institutions, and society? The author takes as her example twentieth-century USSR.