Predictability in science and society
Subtitle: a joint symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy held on 20 and 21 March 1986
By: organized and edited by Sir John Mason, P. Mathias, and J.H. Westcott.
Contributors: Mason, B. J.; Mathias, Peter.; Westcott, J. H.; Royal Society (Great Britain); British Academy.
Publisher: Royal Society and the British Academy; Distributed by Scholium International
Published: 1986
Place of publication: London; Great Neck, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Science -- Methodology -- Congresses.; Science -- Forecasting -- Congresses.; Economic forecasting -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"First published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series A, volume 407 (no. 1832), pages 1-145"--Verso of t.p.
Table of contents: title: Prediction and economic theory / A.K. Sen; title: The role of prediction in evaluating econometric models / D.F. Hendry; title: The recently recognized failure of  predictability in Newtonian dynamics / Sir James Lighthill; title: Numerical weather prediction / Sir John Mason; title: Historical inevitability and human agency in Marxism / G.A. Cohen; title: Application of control theory to macro-economic models / J.H. Westcott; title: The interpretation and use of economic predictions / Terence Burns; title: Predictability of living marine organisms / J.A. Gulland.