Dark Horses

Two weeks ago this column featured a couple of books which prove, rather conclusively, that the United States and the world in general are not about to run out of energy, and that the “no growth” position urged on us by various spokesmen is accordingly mistaken.

This and related themes are developed on a much broader canvas by futurologist Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute in World Economic Development (Morrow, $7.95). The book is in considerable measure an extension of Kahn’s previous study, The Next 200 Years (reviewed here on June 24, 1977), but ranges far beyond the economic/ technical issues covered in that earlier volume to consider such matters as cultural, sociological, and intellectual forces impinging on the economic process.

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Two weeks ago this column featured a couple of books which prove, rather conclusively, that the United States and the world in general are not about to run out of energy, and that the “no growth” position urged on us by various spokesmen is accordingly mistaken.

This and related themes are developed on a much broader canvas by futurologist Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute in World Economic Development (Morrow, $7.95). The book is in considerable measure an extension of Kahn’s previous study, The Next 200 Years (reviewed here on June 24, 1977), but ranges far beyond the economic/ technical issues covered in that earlier volume to consider such matters as cultural, sociological, and intellectual forces impinging on the economic process.