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Visions of the future : the distant past, yesterday, today, tomorrow / Robert Heilbroner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heilbroner, Robert L.
- Series:
- Oxford American Lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forecasting--History.
- Forecasting.
- Civilization, Modern--20th century--Philosophy.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (78 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Public Library : Oxford University Press, [1996, c1995]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future."" So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner. Heilbroner's basic premise is stunning in its elegant simplicity. He contends that throughout all of human history, despite the huge gulf in social organization, technological development, and cultural achievement that divides us from the earliest known traces of homo sapiens, there have really only been three distinct ways of looking at the future.
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1. Preview; 2. The Distant Past; 3. Yesterday; 4. Today; 5. Tomorrow; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Based on a series of lectures.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4294-0628-3
- 0-19-988026-3
- 1-280-52864-8
- 0-19-534455-3
- 0-19-510286-X
- 0-19-802514-9
- OCLC:
- 778339496
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