Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Social prediction. --- Prediction, Social --- Social forecasting --- Sociological prediction --- Forecasting --- Sociology --- Social indicators --- Statistical methods

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation. Solarities considers the possibilities of organizing societies and economies around solar energy, and the challenges of a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels. Far from presenting solarity as a utopian solution to the climate crisis, it critically examines the ambiguous potentials of solarities: plural, situated, and often contradictory. Here, a diverse collective of activists, scholars, and practitioners critically engage a wide range of relationships and orientations to the sun. They consider the material and infrastructural dimensions of solar power, the decolonial and feminist promises of decentralized energy, solarian relations with more-than-human kin, and the problem of oppressive and weaponized solarities. Solarities imagines-and demands- possibilities for energy justice in this transition.

Solar energy. --- Solar power --- Force and energy --- Renewable energy sources --- Solar radiation --- Social forecasting, future studies --- Solar energy --- Social aspects.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

We are running out of water, robots will take our jobs, we are eating ourselves to an early death, old age pension and health systems are bankrupting governments, and an immigration crisis is unravelling the European integration project. A growing number of nightmares, perfect storms, and global catastrophes create fear of the future. One response is technocratic optimism - we'll invent our way out of these impending crises. Or we'll simply ignore them as politically too hot to handle, too uncomfortable for experts - denied until crisis hits. History is littered with late lessons from early warnings. Cynicism is an excuse for inaction. Populism flourishes in the depths of despair. Despite the gloom, there is another way to look at the future. We don't have to be pessimistic or optimistic - we can find realistic hope. This book is written by an international and influential collection of future shapers. It is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning to refresh the present, forge new common ground, and redesign the future.

Forecasting. --- Social prediction. --- Prediction, Social --- Social forecasting --- Sociological prediction --- Forecasting --- Sociology --- Social indicators --- Forecasts --- Futurology --- Prediction --- Statistical methods --- future, globalism, global challenges, optimism, global governance, innovation.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

""It's the economy, stupid,"" as Democratic strategist James Carville would say. After many years of study, Ray C. Fair has found that the state of the economy has a dominant influence on national elections. Just in time for the 2012 presidential election, this new edition of his classic text, Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things, provides us with a look into the likely future of our nation's political landscape-but Fair doesn't stop there.Fair puts other national issues under the microscope as well-including congressional elections, Federal Reserve behavior

Social prediction. --- Presidents --- Election forecasting --- Economic forecasting. --- Election --- Forecasting. --- Prediction, Social --- Social forecasting --- Sociological prediction --- Economics --- Presidency --- Forecasting --- Sociology --- Social indicators --- Economic indicators --- Heads of state --- Executive power --- Statistical methods --- Social prediction --- Economic forecasting --- Election&delete& --- E-books --- United States

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Intellectuals since the Industrial Revolution have been obsessed with whether, when, and why capitalism will collapse. This riveting account of two centuries of failed forecasts of doom reveals the key to capitalism’s durability. Prophecies about the end of capitalism are as old as capitalism itself. None have come true. Yet, whether out of hope or fear, we keep looking for harbingers of doom. In Foretelling the End of Capitalism, Francesco Boldizzoni gets to the root of the human need to imagine a different and better world and offers a compelling solution to the puzzle of why capitalism has been able to survive so many shocks and setbacks. Capitalism entered the twenty-first century triumphant, its communist rival consigned to the past. But the Great Recession and worsening inequality have undermined faith in its stability and revived questions about its long-term prospects. Is capitalism on its way out? If so, what might replace it? And if it does endure, how will it cope with future social and environmental crises and the inevitable costs of creative destruction? Boldizzoni shows that these and other questions have stood at the heart of much analysis and speculation from the early socialists and Karl Marx to the Occupy Movement. Capitalism has survived predictions of its demise not, as many think, because of its economic efficiency or any intrinsic virtues of markets but because it is ingrained in the hierarchical and individualistic structure of modern Western societies. Foretelling the End of Capitalism takes us on a fascinating journey through two centuries of unfulfilled prophecies. An intellectual tour de force and a plea for political action, it will change our understanding of the economic system that determines the fabric of our lives.

Capitalism --- Economic history. --- History. --- Bernie Sanders. --- Breakdown. --- Capital. --- Communism. --- Democratic socialism. --- Downfall. --- Engels. --- Futurology. --- Jeremy Corbyn. --- Keynes. --- Prediction. --- Progress. --- Prophecy. --- Revolution. --- Schumpeter. --- Social democracy. --- Social forecasting. --- Socialism. --- Third Way. --- Utopia.