The Limits of Social Prediction

The Monist 52 (3):359-373 (1968)
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The question I wish to raise in this article is whether there is any limit in principle to the prediction of social events. I am not concerned with the practical possibility of such predictions, most of which no doubt will never be made.

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10.5840/monist196852322

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On the theoretical basis of prediction in economics.Wenceslao J. González - 1996 - Journal of Social Philosophy 27 (3):201-228.

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