Liliana Doganova, Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology
IntroductionWhy, in an era saturated with predictive models, climate scenarios, and economic forecasts, does collective action toward the future so often falter? Liliana Doganova’s Discounting the Future answers this question not by invoking moral failure or cognitive bias but by following a decept...
שמור ב:
| הוצא לאור ב: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/statsoc, |
|---|---|
| מחבר ראשי: | |
| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| שפה: | Anglais |
| יצא לאור: |
Statistique et société
2026
|
| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | IntroductionWhy, in an era saturated with predictive models, climate scenarios, and economic forecasts, does collective action toward the future so often falter? Liliana Doganova’s Discounting the Future answers this question not by invoking moral failure or cognitive bias but by following a deceptively technical financial device: the practice of discounting. What looks like a neutral procedure for translating future revenues into present values becomes, in her hands, a political technology ... |
|---|