TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,Richard N. AU - Layard,Richard TI - What the future holds: insights from social science SN - 0262032945 AV - HM901. W53 2002 U1 - 303.49 PY - 2002///] CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Social prediction KW - Forecasting N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-259) and index; 1; Introduction; Richard N. Cooper and Richard Layard --; 2; The River and the Billiard Ball: History, Innovation, and the Future; Peter Schwartz --; 3; The Future of Population; Joel E. Cohen --; 4; The Future of Energy from the Perspective of the Social Sciences; Clark C. Abt --; 5; Modeling Climate Change Impacts and Their Related Uncertainties; Stephen H. Schneider --; 6; The World of Work in the New Millennium; Richard B. Freeman --; 7; Threats to Future Effectiveness of Monetary Policy; Benjamin M. Friedman --; 8; The Architecture of Government in the Twenty-First Century; Timothy Besley --; 9; The Cybernetic Society: Western Future Studies of the 1960s and 1970s and Their Predictions for the Year 2000; Alexander Schmidt-Gernig ER -