Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Summer 1967 (Volume 96, Number 3): Toward the Year 2000: Work in Progress
by Graubard, Stephen R. (ed.)
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Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967. Soft Cover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Square, tight copy with clean, bright pages. General shelfwear to wrappers with darkened spine. Contents: Daniel Bell, "The Year 2000--The Trajectory of an Idea"; Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener, "The Next THirty-Three Years: A Framework for Speculation"; Fred Charles Ikle, "Can Social Predictions Be Evaluated?"; Donald A. Schon, "Forecasting and Technological Forecasting"; Martin Shubik, "Information, Rationality and Free Choice in a Future Democratic Society"; Leonard J. Duhl, "Planning and Predicting: Or What to Do When You Don't Know the Names of the Variables"; Harvey S. Perloff, "Modernizing Urban Development"; Daniel P. Moynihan, "The Relationship of Federal to Local Authorities"; Lawrence K. Frank, "The Need for a New Political Theory"; Stephen R. Graubard, "University Cities in the Year 2000"; Harold Orlans, "Education and Scientific Institutions"; Ernst Mayr, "Biological Man and the Year 2000"; Gardner C. Quarton, "Deliberate Efforts to Control Human Behavior and Modify Personality"; Krister Stendahl, "Religion, Mysticism and the Institutional Church"; Erik H. Erikson, "Memorandum on Youth"; Margaret Mead, "The Life Cycle and Its Variations: The Division of Roles"; Harry Kalven Jr., "The Problems of Privacy in the Year 2000"; George A. Miller, "Some Psychological Perspectives on the Year 2000"; David Riesman, "Notes on Meritocracy"; John R. Pierce, "Communication"; Eugene V. Rostow, "Thinking about the Future of International Society"; Samuel P. Huntington, "Political Development and the Decline of the American System of World Order"; Ithiel de Sola Pool, "The International System in the Next Half Century." Also proceedings of Working Sessions I and II included. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 372 pages.
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- Title
- Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Summer 1967 (Volume 96, Number 3): Toward the Year 2000: Work in Progress
- Author
- Graubard, Stephen R. (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- PERIODICAL, FUTURIST, FUTURISM, MILLENIUM, FUTURE, SOCIETY, SOCIAL, CULTURE, CULTURAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Americana; Social Sciences;
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