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Word: kondratieff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...exactitude of modern science save us from silliness in attempting to know what will happen next year, or next week, or even this afternoon. Economics is called the dismal science as much for being dismally wrong as for being excessively gloomy in its visions of Malthusian catastrophe and Kondratieff instability. Weather forecasters, with their satellites, high-altitude balloons and multidimensional computer models, still predict sunny spells just before the deluge, and blizzards just before the thaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecast 2001 | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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