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Selling the Future: The Perils of Predicting Global Politics
In an age of uncertainty, those who can anticipate revolution, the outbreak of wars, or which states might default are much in demand. The marketplace of ideas about the future is huge, and includes 'wonks', scholars and pundits who produce scenarios, predictions and ratings. The more opaque the future seems to be, so the relation between knowledge and power intensifies, above all the nexus between those who sell their expertise and those who consume it. In his investigation of the paradoxes of forecasting, Ariel Colonomos interrogates today's knowledge factories to reveal how our futures are shaped by social scientists, think tanks and rating agencies. He explains why conservative and linear predictions prevail, and why the future, especially when linked to national interest, reflects a systematic search for stability.

Selling the Future: The Perils of Predicting Global Politics

SKU: 060680
$50.00Price
  • ISBN

    9781849045537
  • Authors

    Colonomos, Ariel
  • Extent

    230
  • Format

    Hardcover
  • Year

    2017
  • Publisher

    Hurst

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