Wishful Thinking

Le Monde, interview of Phelps by Claire Gatinois and Sylvain Cypel, “Les economies occidentales n'innovent pas suffisamment” (Western economies do not innovate enough), 28 June 2010, p. 15.

Hessels L. van Lenter H. Smits R. , “In search of relevance: the changing contract between science and society,” Science and Public Policy, June 2009, pp. 191–192.

Holmes R. , The Age of Wonder, How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, Pantheon, New York, 2009.

Scientific American , “Catastrophic thinking, the way to avoid ruinous oil spills” (Editorial), August 2010, p. 18.

Katz A. (2010), “French city learns about derivatives the hard way,” International Herald Tribune, 16 April, pp. 17–18.

Tabuchi H. of The New York Times, “Novel idea for Japan: A budget-travel airport,” International Herald Tribune, 11 March 2010, p. 17.

Cowell A. , “A long wait for justice from Russia,” International Herald Tribune, 28 November 2009, p. 2.

Zheng , in a presentation titled “Foreign policy as seen from Beijing,” Foreign Press Welcome Centre (CAPE), Paris, 7 April 2010.

Li T. , “Confucius, une belle enseigne très politique” (An appealing signboard, very political), Courrier international, 8 April 2010, pp. 40–41.

Ramo J. , “How to think about China,” Time (International ed.), 19 April 2010, pp. 28–29.

MacMillan M. , Dangerous Games, The Uses and Abuses of History, Modern Library/Chronicles, New York, 2009, pp. 103–104.

Thompson M. , The White War, Life And Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919, Faber and Faber, London, 2008, p. 308.

Colodny L. Schachtman T. , The Forty Years War, The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama, HarperCollins, New York, 2009 p. 14.

A media release from the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, distributed 30 January 2009.

Yergin D. , The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power (rev. with new Epilogue), New York, Free Press, 2009.

Rankin N. , A Genius for Deception, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, pp. 60–61.

McMeekin S. , The Berlin-Baghdad Express, The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, Harvard/Belknap, Cambridge MA, 2010, p. 187.

Hastings M. , Retribution, The Battle for Japan, 1944–45, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007, p. 124, citing Craven and Cate's The U.S. Army Air Forces in WWII, Vol. V, 1953, p. 344, and p. 242.

Colley D. , Decision at Strasbourg: Ike's Strategic Mistake to Halt the Sixth Army Group at the Rhine in 1944, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD, 2008; see final chapter.

Sanger D. , Sanger's article appeared in the International Herald Tribune, 31 May 2010, p. 2.

Plotkin R. , “The automation of invention,” The Futurist, July-August 2009, p. 23.

Holmes , op. cit., p. 129.

Yergin , op. cit., p. 9.

Yergin , op. cit., pp. 172–173.

Ubel P. , Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is at Odds with Economics—and Why It Matters, Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge MA, 2009.

Baron J. , Thinking and Deciding (4th ed.), New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008: “Distortion of belief by desires,” pp. 215, 405, 420, 491.

Millett S. , “Five principles of futuring as applied history,” The Futurist, September-October 2011, p. 39.

Ogilvy J. , “Facing the fold: from the eclipse of Utopia to the restoration of hope,” Foresight, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2011, p. 7.

Seife C. , Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, Viking, New York, 2008.

Walzer M. “Une guerre peut-elle être juste?” (Can a war be a just one?), Sciences humaines, No. 229-bis September 2011, p. 12.