Mood Matters From Rising Skirt Lengths to the Collapse of World Powers /

• Main Author: Casti, John L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Economics.; Management science.; Economics, general.; Popular Science, general.

"Mood Matters" makes the radical assertion that all social events ranging from fashions in music and art to the rise and fall of civilizations are biased by the attitudes a society holds toward the future. When the "social mood" is positive and people look forward to the future,...

Table of Contents:

• The UnConventional Wisdom
• Why “Stuff” Happens
• Why Hits Happen
• Why wars, Economic Cycles, and Political Crises Happen
• Why Great Powers Come and Go
• Getting It Together
• Appendices.