“…Wild card…”

“…Wild cards 1…”

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Table of Contents: “…Climate change, health, and migration: the wild card in the deck --…”
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Table of Contents: “…The battle for the future of American energy -- "The barbarians are at the door" -- Energy independence on the horizon -- "Game over" -- The car of the future -- "Win, win, win, win" -- Wild cards -- The energy opportunity.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Past trends in influencing areas -- The scenarios -- Consequences for future mobility -- Wild-card scenarios -- implications of the scenarios -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: List of experts.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- What are projected trends and wild cards?…”

Table of Contents: “…On possible and impossible futures -- Drivers of change -- The coming economic crisis of the West -- Wild cards : Russia, China, India and Islam -- Technology, progress and economic growth -- More on jobs -- The growth illusion -- Equity, poverty and the coming social crisis -- Economic growth versus the environment -- Eco-restructuring for sustainability -- The government role -- International development issues -- The economic growth paradigm -- The free trade paradigm -- National debt and national wealth.…”

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Study Objectives -- Creating the Scenarios -- Why the Scenarios Matter -- Repot Organization -- Chapter 2: Past Trends in Influencing Areas -- Demographic Trends -- Economic Trends -- Energey Trends -- Transportaion Supply and Constraint Trends -- Chapter 3: Key Drivers and Common Projections -- Key Drivers -- Common Projections -- Chapter 4: The Scenarios -- Background to All Scenarios -- Screnario 1: The Great Reset -- Scenario 2: Slowing but Growing -- Chapter 5: Wild-Card Scenario -- Debt Comes Due -- Chapter 6: Implications of the Scenarios -- Implications for Transportation Policy -- Implications for Transportation Decisionmaking -- Utility of the Wild-Card Scenario -- Chapter 7: Conclusions -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: List of Experts -- Bibliography -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Between realities -- Sliding down Hubbert's bell curve -- Energy and the rise and fall of civilizations -- Fossil-fuel era -- Islamist wild card -- Global meltdown -- Vulnerabilities along the seams -- Dawn of the hydrogen economy -- Reglobalization from the bottom up.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Plutarch and the dream of virtue -- Hagiography and Aelfric -- Three Italians: Machiavelli, Cellini, and Vasari -- Chronicles, Holinshed, Shakespeare-- and breaking out -- Samuel Johnson -- --And the Boswell connection -- Laurence Sterne: an eighteenth-century wild card -- Appendix: Johnson on biography.…”

Table of Contents: “…A loser in a party of losers -- Rapprochement with the right -- Comeback year -- Manila questions -- New recruits -- The Six-Day War and after -- "Year of the dropout" -- Assassinations and anarchy -- The wild card -- Montauk and Miami Beach -- At the "Comrade Hilton" -- Hearing footsteps.…”