Looking forward : prediction and uncertainty in modern America / Jamie L. Pietruska.
2017
CB158 .P54 2017
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Title
Looking forward : prediction and uncertainty in modern America / Jamie L. Pietruska.
Author
Pietruska, Jamie L., author.
ISBN
9780226509150 (electronic book)
022650915X (electronic book)
9780226475004
022647500X
022650915X (electronic book)
9780226475004
022647500X
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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English
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1 online resource.
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CB158 .P54 2017
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330.973/00112
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: crisis of certainty
Cotton guesses
The daily "probabilities"
Weather prophecies
Economies of the future
Promises of love and money
Epilogue: specters of uncertainty.
Cotton guesses
The daily "probabilities"
Weather prophecies
Economies of the future
Promises of love and money
Epilogue: specters of uncertainty.