The Next eighty years
Subtitle: proceedings of a conference held at the California Institute of Technology, April 5-6, 1977
Publisher: California Institute of Technology
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Pasadena
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Economic history; Congresses; Economic forecasting; Economics
Notes: Conference held to evaluate and revise forecasts made in 1957 and 1967 in the books: The next hundred years, and The next ninety years.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The next hundred, ninety, eighty years; title: some of the problems we did not talk about 20 years ago of 10 years ago / Harrison Brown; title: The evolution of underabundance / James Bonner; title: The Mexican experience- trends in the Mexican economy and constraints to development / Marin Maydon; title: The experience of India and Bangladesh / Marcus Franda; title: The African experience / Thayer Scudder; title: Basic human needs and the world's poorest billion- what future prospects? / James P. Grant; title: Are computers simulations of the industrial future of value? / Donella Meadows; title: The possibility and consequences of climatic change / Stephen Schneider; title: Is our energy problem solvable? / John Teem; title: The future of Japan- continuity and discontinuity in social change / Michio Nagai; title: Health in the decades ahead / David Hamburg, M.D.; title: Retrospective futurology / the Right Honourable the Lord Ritchie-Calder.