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Uses and Abuses of Forecasting

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Authors:
  1. Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex
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  1. Tom Whiston

    1. SPRU, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex, Tom Whiston
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Development of Forecasting: Towards a History of the Future

    • Ian Miles
    Pages 5-41

  4. Economic Forecasting

    • Frank Blackaby
    Pages 42-53

  5. Market Forecasting

    • Mark Abrams
    Pages 54-63

  6. Transport Forecasting: Fixing the Future

    • Jonathan Gershuny
    Pages 64-92

  7. The Brighton Marina: A Case Study in Arbitrariness, Uncertainty and Social Welfare in Planning Models

    • Roy Turner, Sam Cole
    Pages 93-107

  8. Manpower Forecasters as Lobbyists: A Case Study of the Working Group on Manpower Parameters for Scientific Growth 1965–8

    • Kevin McCormick
    Pages 108-142

  9. Population Forecasting: Social and Educational Policy

    • Tom Whiston
    Pages 143-181

  10. Shadows on the Seventies: Indicative World Plan, the Protein Gap, and the Green Revolution

    • Pauline K. Marstrand, Howard J. Rush
    Pages 182-200

  11. The Accuracy of Long-term Forecasts for Non-Ferrous Metals

    • William Page, Howard Rush
    Pages 201-228

  12. Forecasting the Forces of Nature

    • John Gribbin
    Pages 229-247

  13. Telecommunications

    • S. Encel
    Pages 248-266

  14. Long-range Forecasting and Policy-Making — Options and Limits in Choosing a Future

    • Bjorn Wittrock
    Pages 267-288

  15. The Political Limits to Forecasting

    • Edward Wenk Jr.
    Pages 289-322

  16. Interests, Hopes and Fears — Can We Change the Future?

    • Sam Cole
    Pages 323-343

  17. The Uses of Forecasting: Some Concluding Comments

    • Tom Whiston
    Pages 344-350

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 351-358
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Editors and Affiliations

  • SPRU, UK

    Tom Whiston

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Uses and Abuses of Forecasting

  • Authors: Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex

  • Editors: Tom Whiston

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04486-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1979

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-04486-3Published: 17 June 1979

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 358

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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