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Selling the Future: The Paradoxes of Predicting Global Politics
Ariel Colonomos
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Description for Selling the Future: The Paradoxes of Predicting Global Politics
Hardback. A cautionary investigation of the global futures business - political risk, investment funding, think tanks - and how its predictions distort our understanding of the world we live in Series: CERI: Comparative Politics and International Studies Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 145. Weight in Grams: 512.
*** Winner of the 2017 ISA Ethics Book Award 2017*** 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 fore--casting, Ariel Colonomos interrogates today's knowledge factories to ... Read more
*** Winner of the 2017 ISA Ethics Book Award 2017*** 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 fore--casting, Ariel Colonomos interrogates today's knowledge factories to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
CERI: Comparative Politics and International Studies Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849045537
SKU
V9781849045537
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About Ariel Colonomos
Ariel Colonomos is Senior Research Fellow, CERI/CNRS, Paris.
Reviews for Selling the Future: The Paradoxes of Predicting Global Politics
'Written in powerful and lucid prose, Selling the Futurepresents trenchant insights on the treatment of the future in theoretical and empirical international relations and is the mark of a vivd imagination that crosses, foxlike, the disciplines of IR, economics, philosophy and ethics.'
Professor Richard Beardsworth, Chair of the 2017 ISA Ethics Book Award committee and Head of International Politics, ... Read more
Professor Richard Beardsworth, Chair of the 2017 ISA Ethics Book Award committee and Head of International Politics, ... Read more