Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Andersson, Jenny
• Daniel Bessner
• Nicolas Guilhot

Titel

Prediction and Social Choice: Daniel Bell and Future Research

Ist Teil von

• The Decisionist Imagination, 2018, p.250

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 1973, Daniel Bell published what would become his magnum opus: The Coming of Post Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting. Most scholarly attention on Bell has focused on his analysis of postindustrial society as a future social order dominated by information, science, and technology. Bell’s thesis about “mass knowledge society” was a core contribution to a debate on postindustrialism that started in the late 1960s and continued for years.¹ Much less attention, however, has been devoted to Bell’s interest in social forecasting and to his argument that a postindustrial society required new means of planning in a set