Ökonomische Zukunftsforschung: Grundlagen – Konzepte – Perspektiven: FOM-Edition

The book consists of seven chapters: The introduction (1) lays the foundation for our conceptual framework. Next, the origins of futurology are traced: in conceptual terms as well as geographical and socio-cultural terms (2). The following chapters explain the theoretical basis, beginning with the central questions of the discipline – our understanding of complexity and strategic management (3). In turn, the book examines actual research programmes (4), scientific understanding (5) and the two central paradigms (6), as well as the economy concept of futurology (7). 

The mission of economic futurology is to research how the unthinkable can become thinkable, how the impossible can become possible, and how the unachievable can become achievable (“to dream the impossible dream”). In a scientificcontext, the