What the future holds : insights from social science

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What the future holds : insights from social science

edited by Richard N. Cooper and Richard Layard

MIT Press, c2002

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Predicting the future is notoriously difficult. But systematic analysis leads to clearer understanding and wiser decisions. Thinking about the future also makes social scientists focus their research into the past and present more fruitfully, with more attention to key predictors of change. This book considers how we might think intelligently about the future. Taking different methodological approaches, well-known specialists forecast likely future developments and trends in human life. The questions they address include: How many humans will there be? Will there be enough energy? How will climate change affect our lives? What patterns of work will exist? How will government work at the local, national, and world level? Will inflation remain under control? Why have past forecasts been so bad? The book concludes with a discussion of the intellectual and historical context of futurology and a look at the accuracy of predictions that were made for the year 2000.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA55229117
  • ISBN
    • 0262032945
  • LCCN
    2001032976
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • ページ数/冊数
    285 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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