Selling the Future: The Perils of Predicting Global Politics 9780190603649

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Автор: Colonomos Ariel
Название: Selling the Future: The Perils of Predicting Global Politics
ISBN: 9780190603649
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 019060364X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 15.08.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 218 x 145 x 23
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: США
Описание: In an age of uncertainty, those who can anticipate revolution, the outbreak of wars, or which states might default are much in demand. The marketplace of ideas about the future is huge, and includes wonks, scholars and pundits who produce scenarios, predictions and ratings. The more opaque the future seems to be, so the relation between knowledge and power intensifies, above all the nexus between those who sell their expertise and those who consume it.
In his investigation of the paradoxes of forecasting, Ariel Colonomos interrogates todays knowledge factories to reveal how our futures are shaped by social scientists, think tanks and rating agencies. He explains why conservative and linear predictions prevail, and why the future, especially when linked to national interest, reflects a systematic search for stability. The notion of a globalized world whose main characteristic is speed, and where predictions have accelerating, self-fulfilling effects, is obsolete. Those who are supposed to know, reassure those who are supposed to act. Their preferences converge, and thus the industry of the future has a decelerating effect on world politics. These lords of knowledge reinforce pre-existing beliefs, create expectations about the future, while obstructing its vision when -- inevitably -- it diverges from its orderly path.

Selling the Future: The Perils of Predicting Global Politics, Colonomos Ariel