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What the future holds : insights from social science
- Title
- What the future holds : insights from social science / edited by Richard N. Cooper and Richard Layard.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
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- Description
- 285 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Social scientists from various disciplines discuss and offer predictions about the future. [publisher].
- Subject
- Social prediction
- Forecasting
- Forecasting
- Social prediction
- Toekomstverwachtingen
- Sociale wetenschappen
- economic and social development
- forecast
- future
- forecasting technique
- economic forecast
- population projection
- population dynamics
- energy
- climate
- future of work
- employment
- monetary policy
- futures studies
- statistical table
- développement économique et social
- prévision
- futur
- technique de prévision
- prévision économique
- projection démographique
- dynamique de la population
- énergie
- climat
- avenir du travail
- emploi
- politique monétaire
- prospective
- tableau statistique
- desarrollo económico y social
- predicción
- futuro
- técnica de predicción
- predicción económica
- proyección de la población
- dinámica poblacional
- energía
- clima
- futuro del trabajo
- empleo
- política monetaria
- estudios prospectivos
- cuadros estadísticos
- developed countries
- developing countries
- pays développés
- pays en développement
- países desarrollados
- países en desarrollo
- Genre/Form
- Forecasting.
- graph.
- graphique.
- gráfico.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references 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.
- ISBN
- 0262032945
- 9780262032940
- 0262532042
- 9780262532044
- LCCN
- 2001032976
- OCLC
- ocm46882669
- 46882669
- SCSB-8805822
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library