Art of Conjecture Jouvenel Bertrand dePaperback
Art of Conjecture Jouvenel Bertrand dePaperback Commissions of experts regularly meet to reply to questions such as: What will be the population of the country, or even of our planet, in ten, fifteen…
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Art of Conjecture Jouvenel Bertrand dePaperback
Commissions of experts regularly meet to reply to questions such as: What will be the population of the country, or even of our planet, in ten, fifteen or twenty-five years? The attraction of efforts to forecast the future continues. In what proportion will production have increased, what modifications will its composition and utilizations have undergone?
How does it proceed? That is a fact. That is a problem, one on which de Jouvenel focuses on in this book.The Art of Conjecture clearly explains what the "study of the future" can mean.
De Jouvenel emphasizes the logical and political problems of forecasting and discusses methods in economics, sociology, and political science by which the future can be studied. More importantly, he discusses the fallacies to which the "study of the future" is peculiarly likely to give rise. The author argues that it is natural and