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Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America convincingly demonstrates the importance of RAND’s Delphi method and political gaming as techniques of prognosis that were central to the construction of Cold War futures expertise. The book begins from the premise that although expertise in various forms of prognosis, prediction, and forecasting predated the creation of RAND, different modes of interaction among experts at RAND defined a new form of future-oriented expertise during the Cold War. This visual essay will use this premise as an entry point into other, earlier historical examples of interaction, albeit in different forms, that also produced expert knowledge about the future: 1.) nineteenth-century meteorological knowledge infrastructures and what Aitor Anduaga has described as “epistemic networks,” 2.) agricultural statistics and cooperative bureaucracy, and 3.) early twentieth-century business forecasting and what Seth Rockman has identified as the “paper technologies of capitalism.” This visual essay examines three images that illuminate earlier historical examples of expert interaction in predictive knowledge infrastructures in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. The essay employs historian Paul Edwards’s definition of knowledge infrastructures as “robust networks of people, artifacts, and institutions that generate, share, and maintain specific knowledge about the human and natural worlds.” An infrastructural framework, as Edwards observes, shifts away from “thinking about knowledge as pure facts, theories, and ideas” and instead “views knowledge as an enduring, widely shared sociotechnical system.” The visual essay format makes visible the material components of a knowledge infrastructure as well as its symbolic meanings, and it also reminds us to ask what is not pictured and why. This essay focuses on how these knowledge infrastructures have combined data, information, judgment, and opinion to produce expert knowledge about the future, and it asks us to consider how future-oriented expertise has emerged historically and who counts as an expert. It will explore three main questions: How has interaction among experts historically taken place at a distance and in person? How did knowledge infrastructures, bureaucracies, and paperwork shape the production of expert knowledge about the future before the Cold War? How has expert foreknowledge historically relied on various forms of “futurework” as labor?

Sustainable capitalism is more than a response to the environmental crisis.In this book, the authors propose a new conceptual business model as a contribution to global sustainable capitalism in the making, in an attempt assist in the education of global stakeholders about the importance, the rationale, and the pathway to the introduction of.

Australia's cost of living crisis is a defining feature of the post-pandemic Australian economy. Rising grocery prices, unaffordable housing, higher energy bills and stagnant wages have created chronic cost-of-living pressures, while productivity growth has stalled and headline GDP growth masked a 'per capita' recession (ABS2024). Framing the inflationary shock as an emergency set the scene for contractionary monetary policy by the Reserve Bank in 2022 (RBA 2023), followed by targeted relief measures such as energy rebates and rental subsidies (Australian Government Treasury 2023b). In 2025, inflation was reframed as manageable and tight monetary policy was cautiously loosened, but many Australian households are still facing severe cost-of-living pressures.

\"Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term success. But this is not just a familiar story of the so-called new economy. Capitalism without Capital shows that the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the larger economic changes of the past decade, including the growth in economic inequality and the stagnation of productivity. Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake explore the unusual economic characteristics of intangible investment and discuss how an economy rich in intangibles is fundamentally different from one based on tangibles. Capitalism without Capital concludes by outlining how managers, investors, and policymakers can exploit the characteristics of an intangible age to grow their businesses, portfolios, and economies\"--Page 4 of cover.

This article examines depression as both an inevitable feature of, and a construct produced within, contemporary Western society, shaped by the forces of late capitalism and neoliberal ideology. Building on Mark Fisher's call to politicise depression, it engages with Marxist, critical mental health, and anti- psychiatry scholarship to argue that the definition and treatment of depression by the psy-professions serve the interests of the neoliberal agenda. Rather than viewing depression as an apolitical, individualised 'disorder', the article situates it as a deeply political phenomenon rooted in systemic conditions. At the same time, it acknowledges the undeniable reality of lived experiences of depression, which necessitate forms of care. The discussion explores alternatives to psychiatric 'treatment', highlighting the possibilities found in radical therapy and, more radically still, in the abolition of psychiatric hegemony in favour of transformative, collective forms of care.

This Essay concerns the evolving relationship between the economy, specifically the economy of the British North America that became the United States, and the methods society deployed to legitimate, control, and channel economic behavior, especially religion and law. Using the recently published work of three eminent academics—Benjamin Friedman, Jonathan Levy, and William Novak—it addresses the changes in thought necessary to legitimate acquisitive economic behavior and the consequent centering of law as the secular replacement for religion. Having unleashed that behavior, society, yet wary of it, at least in its extreme forms, had to develop mechanisms to channel that behavior in ways that created social benefit and limit its antisocial extremes. That behavior became known as capitalism. The state had always regulated economic behavior, of course, but the purposes of regulation, and its mechanisms, changed as capitalism evolved, and as understandings of capitalism evolved in tandem with the economy itself. In the United States, that evolution was marked by a continuing attention to democratic aspirations, aspirations both political and egalitarian. As capitalism fostered wider markets, as its evolution embodied industrialism and commercialism, it created problems that the regulatory state could not handle. In America, the transition from regulatory to administrative state was complicated by its federal structure and background democratic egalitarian yearnings. Friedman, Levy, and Novak illustrate and elucidate aspects of that evolution. This Essay suggests that reading them together explains more than each separately and ends by noting how the tensions they explain usefully add to our understanding of American law, and, coincidentally, the potentially transformational administrative law decisions of the Supreme Court in the 2023–2024 term.