Future babble
Subtitle: why expert predictions fail and why we believe them anyway
By: Dan Gardner
Publisher: Virgin Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780753522363
Subjects: Uncertainty; Fallacies (Logic); Thought and thinking; Perception; Forecasting; Social change; Economic forecasting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The unpredictable world; title: In the minds of experts; title: The experts agree : expect much more of the same; title: Unsettled by uncertainty; title: Everyone loves a hedgehog; title: When prophets fail; title: The end.