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This book reviews the intellectual and political history of scientific prediction. Rindzeviit (criminology and sociology, Kingston Univ., London) is concerned with prediction as used to inform governance, including economic forecasting. The author focuses mainly on Soviet Russia (the former USSR) with its specialized emphasis on prediction and planning. * Choice * The Will to Predict tackles an intriguing and topical issue of considerable interest to his- torians of science, especially the historical scrutiny of the role that science has in modern and late modern governance. It is a well-informed book, rich in ideas and examples, developing its important topic in theoretically illuminating and conceptually productive ways while contributing a selective, but thoughtful and original, analysis of the underexplored, yet distinctive and instructive, Soviet case. * British Journal for the History of Science *

This book reviews the intellectual and political history of scientific prediction. Rindzeviit (criminology and sociology, Kingston Univ., London) is concerned with prediction as used to inform governance, including economic forecasting. The author focuses mainly on Soviet Russia (the former USSR) with its specialized emphasis on prediction and planning. * Choice *

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Eglė Rindzevičiūtė is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology at Kingston University, London. She is the author of The Power of Systems and Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy.

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