Is the future a political economy? Functional analysis of three leading foresight and futures studies journals

Futures

Volumn 81, Issue , 2016, Pages 15-26

  Roth, Steffen ^a,b   Kaivo oja, Jari ^c  

^a RENNES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (France)

^b YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Function systems; Functional differentiation; Key variables; Modelling; Social systems

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MODELING; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SOCIAL CHANGE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84951160184     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2015.10.002     Document Type: Article

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