Predictability in science and society

a joint symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy held on 20 and 21 March 1986

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Predictability in science and society: a joint symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy held on 20 and 21 March 1986
1986, Royal Society and the British Academy, Distributed by Scholium International
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London, Great Neck, N.Y

Table of Contents

Prediction and economic theory / A.K. Sen
The role of prediction in evaluating econometric models / D.F. Hendry
The recently recognized failure of predictability in Newtonian dynamics / Sir James Lighthill
Numerical weather prediction / Sir John Mason
Historical inevitability and human agency in Marxism / G.A. Cohen
Application of control theory to macro-economic models / J.H. Westcott
The interpretation and use of economic predictions / Terence Burns
Predictability of living marine organisms / J.A. Gulland.

Edition 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.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
501
Library of Congress
Q174 .P74 1986

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Pagination
viii, 145 p. :
Number of pages
145

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2498783M
ISBN 10
0854032843
LCCN
87670011

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