| Description |
285 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-259) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Social prediction.
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Forecasting.
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| Added Author |
Cooper, Richard N.
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Layard, Richard, 1934-
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| ISBN |
0262032945 hardcover alkaline paper |
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