Visions of the Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday Today, and Tomorrow.
HEILBRONER, Robert .
Visions of the Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday Today, and Tomorrow.
First Edition of Visions of the Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday Today, and Tomorrow; Inscribed by Robert Heilbroner
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
$475.00
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Item Number: 151094
First edition of this prescient work by the author of The Worldly Philosophers. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For John Barnhad with many thanks- Robert Heilbroner.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, date to the front endpaper.
"This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future." So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner. Heilbroner's basic premise is stunning in its elegant simplicity. He contends that throughout all of human history, despite the huge gulf in social organization, technological development, and cultural achievement that divides us from the earliest known traces of homo sapiens, there have really only been three distinct ways of looking at the future.
