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By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass., Winthrop Publishers [1973]Description: xvi, 335 p. illus. 23 cmISBN:
  • 0876268319
  • 9780876268315
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 309.1
LOC classification:
  • CB158 .T84
Other classification:
  • 02.00
  • 86.55
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Contents:
Public policy and the study of the future : setting an agenda. What we must do / John Platt.
Prediction as a form of knowledge. On the nature of the future / Bertrand de Jouvenel -- Social forecasting : the state of the art / O.D. Duncan -- On the epistemology of the inexact sciences / Olaf Helmer and Nicholas Rescher.
Imagination and values in the study of the future. Futurology and the imaging capacity of the West / Elise Boulding -- Futurology and the study of values / Irene Taviss.
The alternative futures approach. The alternative world futures approach / Herman Kahn.
The Delphi technique and the cross-impact matrix. Delphi and cross-impact techniques : an effective combination for systematic futures analysis / Selwyn Enzer -- Comparison of Delphi forecasting studies in 1964 and 1969 / Robert H. Ament.
Participatory future studies. Looking forward : 1999 / Arthur I. Waskow.
Speculative scenarios. Eco-catastrophe / Paul Ehrlich.
Models and cybernetic anticipations. Counterintuitive behavior of social systems / Jay W. Forrester.
The international system. On the future of the international system / Johan Galtung.
The post-industrial society : a prospectus. Notes on the post-industrial society / Daniel Bell.
Political futures. Friendly fascism : a model for America / Bertram Gross.
Alternative planning systems. On coping with complexity : urban planning and politics in 1976 / Donald N. Michael.
Beyond bureaucracy : organizational forms. The coming ad-hocracy / Alvin Toffler.
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Bibliography: p. 334-335.

Public policy and the study of the future : setting an agenda. What we must do / John Platt.

Prediction as a form of knowledge. On the nature of the future / Bertrand de Jouvenel -- Social forecasting : the state of the art / O.D. Duncan -- On the epistemology of the inexact sciences / Olaf Helmer and Nicholas Rescher.

Imagination and values in the study of the future. Futurology and the imaging capacity of the West / Elise Boulding -- Futurology and the study of values / Irene Taviss.

The alternative futures approach. The alternative world futures approach / Herman Kahn.

The Delphi technique and the cross-impact matrix. Delphi and cross-impact techniques : an effective combination for systematic futures analysis / Selwyn Enzer -- Comparison of Delphi forecasting studies in 1964 and 1969 / Robert H. Ament.

Participatory future studies. Looking forward : 1999 / Arthur I. Waskow.

Speculative scenarios. Eco-catastrophe / Paul Ehrlich.

Models and cybernetic anticipations. Counterintuitive behavior of social systems / Jay W. Forrester.

The international system. On the future of the international system / Johan Galtung.

The post-industrial society : a prospectus. Notes on the post-industrial society / Daniel Bell.

Political futures. Friendly fascism : a model for America / Bertram Gross.

Alternative planning systems. On coping with complexity : urban planning and politics in 1976 / Donald N. Michael.

Beyond bureaucracy : organizational forms. The coming ad-hocracy / Alvin Toffler.

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