The Historian Between the Ethnologist and the Futurologist. Ed. by Jerôme Dumoulin, Dominique Moisi. a Conference on the Historian Between the Ethnologist and the Futurologist, Venice, April 2-8 1971

Die quantitative Betriebswirtschaftslehre leistet in der Praxis vor allem Entscheidungsvorbereitung. Stand der Forschung, Anwendungsbreite, Leistungspotential, und Operationalität des Zugangs belegt dieses Werk anhand von Fallstudien. Preface Editors' note Contents 1. Rules of the game and landscapes Our current sense of history Discussion 2. Futurology or projection of the present Prediction versus prophecy Discussion 3. The historian and scientific economics The necessity and impossibility of political economy Discussion 4. Illusions of temporal continuity History, sociology and revolutions Discussion 5. Political history in crisis On the position of political history within the social sciences Discussion 6. In praise of history What is historical knowledge for us today? Discussion 7. New historical method History and primitive man The historian and the common man History of systems of values Postface Participants