What the future holds : insights from social science /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (285 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Social prediction. Forecasting. Forecasting. Social prediction. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11118282

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Other authors / contributors:	Cooper, Richard N. Layard, Richard, 1934-
ISBN:	9780262270786 0262270781 058543638X 9780585436388 0262032945 9780262532044
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-259) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Social scientists from various disciplines discuss and offer predictions about the future. 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. Jed.
Other form:	Print version: What the future holds. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002 0262032945

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.

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