Prediction or Prophecy?: The Boundaries of Economic Foreknowledge and Their Socio-Political Consequences

by Gregor Betz

"Knowing, in order to predict". It was this leitmotiv alone that Auguste Comte, in the 19th century, considered suitable for the then rapidly developing empirical sciences. This view remains unchanged until today--not only in the empirical sciences themselves, but also in the philosophy of science. A scientific theory is and should be evaluated primarily on the grounds of its capacity to correctly predict observable phenomena. The aim of predicting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3835002236
• ISBN13: 9783835002234
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Deutscher Universitatsverlag
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"