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The Uses and Abuses of Forecasting by Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex (auth.), Tom Whiston B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., C.Chem. (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-4 The Development of Forecasting: Towards a History of the Future....Pages 5-41 Economic Forecasting....Pages 42-53 Market Forecasting....Pages 54-63 Transport Forecasting: Fixing the Future....Pages 64-92 The Brighton Marina: A Case Study in Arbitrariness, Uncertainty and Social Welfare in Planning Models....Pages 93-107 Manpower Forecasters as Lobbyists: A Case Study of the Working Group on Manpower Parameters for Scientific Growth 1965–8....Pages 108-142 Population Forecasting: Social and Educational Policy....Pages 143-181 Shadows on the Seventies: Indicative World Plan, the Protein Gap, and the Green Revolution....Pages 182-200 The Accuracy of Long-term Forecasts for Non-Ferrous Metals....Pages 201-228 Forecasting the Forces of Nature....Pages 229-247 Telecommunications....Pages 248-266 Long-range Forecasting and Policy-Making — Options and Limits in Choosing a Future....Pages 267-288 The Political Limits to Forecasting....Pages 289-322 Interests, Hopes and Fears — Can We Change the Future?....Pages 323-343 The Uses of Forecasting: Some Concluding Comments....Pages 344-350 Back Matter....Pages 351-358
Who reads The Uses and Abuses of Forecasting?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex (auth.), Tom Whiston B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., C.Chem. (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 1979
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780333260647
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Social Science, Social_sciences