|
|
Reviews for The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior “Periodic profound shifts in human sentiment affect nearly everything, from financial markets and economies to geopolitics and perhaps much more. Theseseismic mood changes have been charted by some seminal thinkers, including Bob Prechter, who now transfers his findings from a lifetime of studying financial markets to human social behavior at large. While social trends and reversals may have root causes apart from Prechter’s conjectures, it would be nearly suicidal toignore the cycles themselves, for there is no other known roadmap to tell us where we are.” –Alfred H. Kingon, President, Kingon International, Co-Chairman, Council of American Ambassadors, former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Assistant to the President and Secretary of the Cabinet (Reagan), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Editor-in-Chief of Financial World, Saturday Review and Money and Credit magazines. “This is unquestionably a ground-breaking work whose audacious arguments can only be described as stunning and revolutionary in intent and scope. These far reaching hypotheses are a testament to Prechter’s unequaled ability to weave together emerging evidence into a stunning new model. After reviewing my not inconsiderable library of key political science books, I am unable to find any books that are as sweepingly important and have the same potential to bring about a paradigm shift in the study of social events.” –Roman Franko, PhD Comparative Politics; market analyst for the National Post and Dundee Securities
–Valeri S. Safonov, PhD Social Psychology, BA Mathematics and Systems Analysis; lecturer, Moscow College of Economics & Linguistics and the Institute of Economics and Culture “A masterpiece of intelligence and ingenuity. Socionomics-grounded thinking will take us over a whole new conceptual threshold in understanding how human sociological and psychological processes are embedded in the behavior of large-scale cultural phenomena.” –Larry R. Vandervert, PhD; founder, the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences; founder, American Nonlinear Systems; contributor, Journal of Mind and Behavior, CyberEducation: The Future of Long Distance Learning and The International Handbook on Innovation. “The insights in this book originate with the careful inductive analysis published in the 1930s by Ralph N. Elliott and culminate with the important and breathtaking work that Robert R. Prechter, Jr. has pursued over the last three decades, applying and extending these principles to a wide variety of phenomena.” –Hernán Cortés Douglas, MA, ABD Economics, University of Chicago; Professor of Economics, Catholic University of Chile; Luksic Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center of Latin American Studies, Harvard University “By examining the bases and patterns of self-organization within society, Socionomics establishes a research agenda that places it at the developmental forefront of the newest research methodologies involving patterns, systems, interactive non-linear influences and the pluralism of the sciences. The insights and issues developed by this rich and robust research agenda provide a plethora of fruitful directions for investigation into the nature of social processes.” –Michael K. Green, PhD in philosophy, University of Chicago; Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Oneonta “The book is beautiful, and I particularly liked your chapters in Parts III-V on herding behavior and social moods. Congratulations for assembling this stimulating and controversial (from the point of view of mainstream research) book.” –Didier Sornette, PhD; Professor, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA; Director of Research, French National Center for Scientific Research; author, Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences, Chaos, Fractals, Self-organization and Disorder “I have just finished the book -- amazing. I hope that you will distribute free copies to experts in the various fields for their comments and suggestions. This is truly a masterwork. It deserves a lot of publicity.” –Arthur A. Merrill, MBA Harvard, President, Merrill Analysis, Inc., author Behavior of Prices, Filtered Waves and others; editor, Technical Trends “Prechter’s work in investment psychology is seminal.” –John W. Schott, M.D., Chairman, Dept. of Psychiatry, MetroWest Medical Center; Instructor, Harvard Medical School; Director and portfolio manager, Steinberg Global Asset Mgmt.; author, Mind Over Money; Director, annual Congress on the Psychology of Investing “What a brilliant book! I feel like a whole new world has opened up.” –Charles V. Berney, PhD; contributor, Spectroscopy in Biology and Chemistry and Methods of Experimental Physics; formerly Senior Research associate for the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory
|
