Why Yesterday Tells of Tomorrow: How the Long Waves of the Economy Help Us Determine Tomorrow's TrendsHelmut Gaus (1942) is doctor of Modern History and a professor in the Faculty of Social and Political Science at the University of Ghent in Belgium. |
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
Behavioural functionalism as an observation method | 61 |
Construction of the long wave of anxiety | 75 |
Common terms and phrases
analysis answer anxious appear ascending assume attitude authority average basic anxiety becomes beginning behaviour cause century changes chapter characteristics clear clearly colour concern consequence considered context correlation course cultural cycle decreasing descending descending phase determined dresses economic effect emotional emotionality evolution example existence expect experience explain expression extent fact factors fashion fear feeling fiction forms functional future give groups hand historical human identity Illustration implies important increase indicate individual insecurity interest investments Kondratiev less live long wave longer marriage mass means mechanism mind movement namely nature normal obvious particular past patterns peak period person phase phenomenon possible precisely present problem psychological question reality reason relation result role seen significance situation social society Source Statistics theory uncertainty underlying wave of anxiety whole