{"product_id":"the-will-to-predict-orchestrating-the-future-through-science-9781501769771","title":"The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Will to Predict\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Egle Rindzevičiūte demonstrates how the logic of scientific expertise cannot be properly understood without knowing the conceptual and institutional history of scientific prediction.\u003c\/b\u003e She notes that predictions of future population, economic growth, environmental change, and scientific and technological innovation have shaped much of twentieth and twenty-first-century politics and social life, as well as government policies. Today, such predictions are more necessary than ever as the world undergoes dramatic environmental, political, and technological change. But, she asks, what does it mean to predict scientifically? What are the limits of scientific prediction and what are its effects on governance, institutions, and society? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer intellectual and political history of scientific prediction takes as its example twentieth-century USSR. By outlining the role of prediction in a range of governmental contexts, from economic and social planning to military strategy, she shows that the history of scientific prediction is a transnational one, part of the history of modern science and technology as well as governance. Going beyond the Soviet case, Rindzevičiūte argues that scientific predictions are central for organizing uncertainty through the orchestration of knowledge and action. Bridging the fields of political sociology, organization studies, and history, \u003ci\u003eThe Will to Predict\u003c\/i\u003e considers what makes knowledge scientific and how such knowledge has impacted late modern governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEgle Rindzevičiūte is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology at Kingston University, London. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Systems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConstructing Soviet Cultural Policy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50390053290258,"sku":"9781501769771","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08a03100-a929-4f4c-b73f-6c9b703c1d4d.jpg?v=1728937546","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-will-to-predict-orchestrating-the-future-through-science-9781501769771","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}