Essential Herman Kahn

In Defense of Thinking
Herausgeber: Aligica, Paul Dragos; Weinstein, Kenneth R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Essential Herman Kahn offers the public for the first time an anthology consisting of the best of Herman Kahn's work. It brings together, out of the several thousands of pages published in his life, the "essential Kahn"-the most relevant, consequential, and interesting themes, ideas, and arguments of his work in areas such as international relations, public policy, environmentalism, strategic thinking, and futurology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9780739128282
• ISBN-10: 0739128280
• Artikelnr.: 26010352

Autorenporträt

Paul Dragos Aligica is senior fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Washington University, faculty fellow at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy, associate faculty at the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University, and adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute. Kenneth R. Weinstein is chief executive officer of the Hudson Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Section 1. Thinking About the Unthinkable: Scenarios, Grand
Strategy, and Thermonuclear War
Chapter 3 In Defense of Thinking
Chapter 4 Twelve Nonissues and Twelve Almost Nonissues
Chapter 5 The Revolution in Warfare: Continuities and Discontinuities
Chapter 6 On Escalation
Chapter 7 Seizing the Moral, Political, and Strategic High Ground
Part 8 Section 2. A World Turning Point: Economic Growth, Cultural Change,
and the Long View
Chapter 9 The Big Picture-And Some Details: Watersheds of History
Chapter 10 Viewing Growth in Context
Chapter 11 Four Characteristic Views of Two Basic Images of the
Earth-Centered Perspective
Chapter 12 Some Current Cultural Contradictions of Economic Growth: The New
Emphases
Chapter 13 Economic Development: Economic and Cultural Parameters
Chapter 14 The Alienated-Affluent Society
Part 15 Section 3. The Challenge of the Future: Futurology, Methodology,
and Policy Research
Chapter 16 The Objectives of Future-Oriented Policy Research
Chapter 17 The Agnostic Use of Information and Concepts
Chapter 18 Forecasting the Future. History Happens in Straight Lines and
Curves
Chapter 19 A Methodological Framework: The Alternative World Futures
Approach
Chapter 20 The Method of Classes of Variables
Chapter 21 Ways to Go Wrong
Chapter 22 Technological Innovation: Mistakes of Omission and Commission
Part 23 Section 4. The Task Ahead: Observations, Recommendations, and
Parting Polemics
Chapter 24 The Normative Perspective and the Ideology of Tomorrow
Chapter 25 Transitional Problems
Chapter 26 The Expert and Educated Incapacity
Chapter 27 Current Western Cultural Trends
Chapter 28 Futurology and the Future of Economic Development
Chapter 29 The Task Ahead
30 Herman Kahn. A Bio-Bibliographical Note