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Visions of the Future : the Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
"This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future." So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner. Heilbroner's basic premise is stunning in its elegan...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
1995.
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| Series: | Oxford American Lectures.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future." So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner. Heilbroner's basic premise is stunning in its elegant simplicity. He contends that throughout all of human history, despite the huge gulf in social organization, technological development, and cultural achievement that divides us from the earliest known traces of homo sapiens, there have really only been three distinct ways of looking at the future. Durin. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (146 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780199880263 0199880263 1280528648 9781280528644 019510286X 9780195102864 0195344553 9780195344554 1429406283 9781429406284 0198025149 9780198025146 |