What the future holds : insights from social science /
What the future holds : insights from social science /
edited by Richard N. Cooper and Richard Layard.
- 285 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-259) and index.
Introduction / The River and the Billiard Ball: History, Innovation, and the Future / The Future of Population / The Future of Energy from the Perspective of the Social Sciences / Modeling Climate Change Impacts and Their Related Uncertainties / The World of Work in the New Millennium / Threats to Future Effectiveness of Monetary Policy / The Architecture of Government in the Twenty-First Century / The Cybernetic Society: Western Future Studies of the 1960s and 1970s and Their Predictions for the Year 2000 / Richard N. Cooper and Richard Layard -- Peter Schwartz -- Joel E. Cohen -- Clark C. Abt -- Stephen H. Schneider -- Richard B. Freeman -- Benjamin M. Friedman -- Timothy Besley -- Alexander Schmidt-Gernig. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
0262032945 9780262032940
2001032976
Social prediction
Forecasting.
HM901. / W53 2002
303.49
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-259) and index.
Introduction / The River and the Billiard Ball: History, Innovation, and the Future / The Future of Population / The Future of Energy from the Perspective of the Social Sciences / Modeling Climate Change Impacts and Their Related Uncertainties / The World of Work in the New Millennium / Threats to Future Effectiveness of Monetary Policy / The Architecture of Government in the Twenty-First Century / The Cybernetic Society: Western Future Studies of the 1960s and 1970s and Their Predictions for the Year 2000 / Richard N. Cooper and Richard Layard -- Peter Schwartz -- Joel E. Cohen -- Clark C. Abt -- Stephen H. Schneider -- Richard B. Freeman -- Benjamin M. Friedman -- Timothy Besley -- Alexander Schmidt-Gernig. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
0262032945 9780262032940
2001032976
Social prediction
Forecasting.
HM901. / W53 2002
303.49