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America in perspective : major trends in the United States through the 1990s / Oxford Analytica ; study team, Daniel Heath, editor ... [et al.] ; contributors and critiquers, Andrea Boltho ... [et al.]. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1986. - xix, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index. Revised and updated report of a study commissioned in 1981 by American Express, Bristol-Myers, and Sun Oil.

Bringing America into perspective -- Part I. Society. Changes in population : the future of the American people -- Changes in life chances : the future of the American dream -- Changes in life-styles : the future of the American way of life -- Changes in religion and values : the future of the American creed -- Part II. Politics. The actors on the political scene -- Changing institutions and machinery -- Changing attitudes and ideologies -- Part III. The economy. Productivity -- Unemployment and the changing labor market -- Monetary and fiscal policies -- Part IV. Into the 1990s. Themes of the future -- View of the future : interacting themes.

Results of research done in the 1980s on projections of economic prospects for growth/stagnation and stability/instability into the 1990s.

Adult. Adult Follett Library Resources.

ISBN: 0395395704

LCCN: 86007515

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Economic forecasting.
Economic forecasting--United States.
Social prediction--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Economic conditions.
United States--Economic conditions--1981-
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Politics and government--Forecasting.--1981-1989
United States--Social conditions.
United States--Social conditions--1980-

LC Class. No.: HC106.8 / .A427 1986

Dewey Class. No.: 303.4/973