Pioneering Studies in Socionomics

by Robert R Prechter

Overview

A new understanding of how society works

What drives our social mood? Our actions? Our motivations? The answers to these questions can be found in the new science of socionomics.

Pioneering Studies in Socionomics is the follow-up to Prechter's groundbreaking introductory text on socionomics, The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior. It's comprised of a rich collection of insightful studies and essays representing over 20 years worth of research into this new model of thought.

Socionomic theory evolved from the Wave Principle, a model of financial pricing and catalog of price patterns identified by Ralph Nelson Elliott in the 1930s. Robert Prechter proposes that our social lives are patterned in much the same way as the financial markets. Prechter explains that people in groups share a collective disposition or mood that motivates social, political, economic and financial action.

Come along as the proto-socionomists map their way through uncharted seas to introduce, test and practice their newly discovered craft.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781946597038
Publisher:	Socionomics Institute Press
Publication date:	12/31/2016
Series:	Socionomics-The Science of History and Social Pred , #2
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	538
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

Robert Prechter began his professional career in 1975 as a Technical Market Specialist with the Merrill Lynch Market Analysis Department in New York. He has been publishing The Elliott Wave Theorist since 1979 and is the president of Elliott Wave International. He is also Executive Director of the Socionomics Institute, which studies social mood and its impact on social action, including the stock market and the economy.

Table of Contents

Part I: Popular Culture

Part II: Social Causality

Part III: Sports

Part IV: Corporations, Legislation and Social Conflict

Part V: Toward a Revolution in Financial and Macroeconomic Forecasting Techniques

Part VI: Controversy and Validation

Part VII: Socionomics and Quantum Physics

Part VIII: Miscellaneous Articles, Letters, Speeches and Observations

Editorial Reviews

“Revolutionary! This book completely turns around the conventional direction of causality between financial markets and social moods and behaviors. This is a pathbreaking work that will be seen as the vanguard for an entirely different view of social and behavioral phenomena.” — John Casti, Ph.D. Professor, Santa Fe Institue and Technical University of Vienna, Austria Author of Paradigms Lost and The Cambridge Quintet

“The book is a masterpiece of applied science. It serves as an encyclopedia of facts and ideas, making all of us much smarter and more farsighted regarding the dynamics of human society.” — Valeri Safonov, Ph.D. Forma Tres Company, Riga, Latvia

“In Pioneering Studies in Socionomics, Robert Prechter has made a strong argument that socionomics describes social and economic behavior better than traditional economic theories. More important, he argues that it provides more useful predictions. He presents a very compelling case.” — John Nofsinger, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Finance, Washington State University Author of Investment Madness: How Psychology Affects Your Investing...And What To Do About It

“Predicting the stock market is a national pastime. In this book, Prechter and colleagues turn the tables and explore the stock market as a predictor in its own right. Because the market is a sensitive gauge of national and world mood, Prechter holds, its movements can be used to anticipate everything from the popularity of brand names and spectator sports to the outbreaks of war. The socionomic thesis is a provocative one, worthy of serious consideration and investigation.” — Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University Author of The Psychology of Trading

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