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What drives our social mood? Our actions? Our motivations? Can we look into the make-up of the universe and apply it to who we are and what we do? The answers to these questions are to be found in the new science of socionomics.

Socionomics evolved from the Wave Principle, a theory of patterns in financial markets. Now Robert Prechter proposes that this very same principle can be applied to our own social and cultural lives. Prechter shows that dominant aspects of our unconscious mentation are characterized by measurable patterns. Those patterns form the building blocks of humankind's social interaction, and in turn, the Wave Principle.

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"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; former lecturer, Queen's University; contributor, Canadian Securities Institute's Technical Analysis course; member, Canadian Society of Technical Analysts

"I love this theory. Socionomics is sure to be a primary reference source for quite some time. The volume and value of analysis that Prechter has conducted is something hard to over-appreciate. There should be university courses and degrees in the science of socionomics and perhaps Nobel Prize winners as well. I recommend many readings of the book to appreciate it in depth."
--Professor Valeri Safonov, PhD Social Psychology, BA Mathematics and Systems Analysis; lecturer, Moscow College of Economics & Linguistics and the Institute of Economics and Culture; former First Secretary of Ministry of External Affairs of USSR and economist with the Russian Embassies in Canada and India

"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; Fellow, American Psychological Association; contributor, Journal of Mind and Behavior, CyberEducation: The Future of Long Distance Learning and The International Handbook on Innovation

"With The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior and the New Science of Socionomics, Prechter has moved Elliott's work to a higher level."
--George Schade; Market Technicians Association

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Robert R. Prechter is known for developing a theory of social causality called socionomics and for his career applying and enhancing the Wave Principle, R.N. Elliott's fractal model of financial pricing. Prechter has made presentations on socionomic theory at the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MIT, Trinity College Dublin, Georgia Tech, SUNY and various academic and financial conferences. In 2005, Prechter created the Socionomics Institute, which is dedicated to research and the application of socionomics, and the Socionomics Foundation, which supports academic research in the field. Prechter and colleagues have written several academic papers, including "The Financial/Economic Dichotomy" (2007) and "Social Mood and Presidential Elections" (2012), which became the third most downloaded paper on the Social Science Research Network that year. Prechter graduated from Yale University in 1971, joined the Market Analysis Department of Merrill Lynch in New York in 1975 and founded Elliott Wave International in 1979, where he has published monthly market analysis in The Elliott Wave Theorist. Prechter has authored, edited or contributed to 18 books. His recent work, "The Socionomic Theory of Finance," aims to replace conventional financial and macroeconomic theory with an internally and externally consistent paradigm based on socionomics. He is also a member of the Triple Nine Society and the Shakespeare Oxford Society.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Socionomics Institute Press; 2nd edition (December 31, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 472 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1946597023
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1946597021
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 1 x 9.21 inches

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Robert R. Prechter is known for developing a theory of social causality called socionomics and for his career applying and enhancing the Wave Principle, R.N. Elliott's fractal model of financial pricing. Prechter has authored/edited 18 books, including a New York Times best seller. His 2016 book, The Socionomic Theory of Finance, aims to replace conventional financial and macroeconomic theory with an internally and externally consistent paradigm based on socionomics. Prechter has presented socionomic theory to audiences at academic conferences and universities including the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Georgia Tech and MIT. In 2005, he created the Socionomics Institute, which is dedicated to researching and applying socionomics, and the Socionomics Foundation, which supports academic research by others in the field. Prechter has co-authored several academic papers, including “The Financial/Economic Dichotomy” (2007) and “Social Mood, Stock Market Performance and U.S. Presidential Elections” (2012), the third most downloaded paper on the Social Science Research Network that year. Prechter graduated from Yale University in 1971, joined the Market Analysis Department of Merrill Lynch in New York in 1975 and founded Elliott Wave International in 1979, where he has published monthly market analysis in The Elliott Wave Theorist. Prechter served for nine years on the board of the Market Technicians Association and served as its president in the 1990-91 year. He is a member of the Triple Nine Society and the Shakespeare Oxford Society. For more, visit www.robertprechter.com.

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Read through the fog of information and news

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The ability to make sense of the deluge of information, news, analysis, of various protagonists and antagonists(on current trends, political and economic); is perhaps beyond the scope of regular people. Anybody who wants to make sense of the turbulent times, and protect themselves and their wealth, and plan effectively, needs a different approach. An approach which enables one to be part of society and yet be unaffected by the ups, downs, push and pulls. An approach which allows one to be rational and unemotional. An approach which allows one to be prepared and forewarned, and not reactive.
This book can deliver on all these fronts.
The information is distilled from different branches of psychology, human behaviour and economics and very nicely strings all these sciences into one comprehensive Science of Socioeconomics.

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Woody Dorsey

Taking Stock of the New Science of Socionomics

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 4, 2004

About twenty years ago, I was sitting in the office of a blue blood firm on Wall Street. The elderly partner closed the door, opened his desk drawer and asked: "Do you know about this?" I expected that the book he was handing me was either erotica or esoterica. It was the Elliott Wave Principle by A.J. Frost and Bob Prechter. Yes, I had heard of it, but not everyone had. Now, aspects of it are available on almost every investor's computer. It has become something of a universal language. But, one can order coffee in different cultures and in different cafes, but be served very different qualities of coffee. It depends on the Barista! Elliott wave may be known, but it may not be cognized. It is invariably associated with Bob Prechter. But he has always acknowledged that he was developing other people's ideas. Prechter has been famously known as being a fabulous bull and infamously regarded as a dire bear. Elliott wave is burdened with the Taboo of being "Technical." Many barbs against Technicals are conveniently anchored against Elliott. Elliott was, in part, developing the preliminary theory of Charles Dow whose eponymous average we wrestle with every day. Whether or not the majority recognizes the Elliott wave paradigm, there are patterns in markets which cryptozoic market speculators use every day.

Bob Prechter's new book, The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior, subtitled the New Science of Socionomic([...] may represent his defining contribution to finance. It includes Elliott Wave but delves much further into the frontiers of finance. Investor psychology (the "Psychologicals," as I call them) are subsumed under the larger scale of Sociology (the "Sociologicals?") His book provides new material on Herding and Mood which are the pith of Behavioral Finance. Perhaps most compelling are his insights into popular culture. His analysis of how art, music, sports and political trends relate to the market is unique. The book includes photographs of historical events which show the synchronicity of markets and financial culture. This is related to what I call "Pagegrading" in my book, Behavioral Trading. Front page photographs are a powerful limbic rendering of the Zeitgeist. The Socionomically inclined can read markets from the Social Mood and vice versa. He demonstrates that "Social Mood" is patterned and has a reflexive predictability with the market. The difficulty many people have with Elliott is their apprehension that they have to learn all of the details. But, much can be gleaned from a more generic appreciation. When we go to a Japanese restaurant, we don't expect to learn how to make sushi. We could probably learn exactly how to do it, but only with great passion and practice. Why not just drink the sake and begin to think a little bit Socionomically? The difficulty with Philosophy is that it is always relational and hierarchical. A market philosophy provides a framework for thinking which may not always deliver an easy course of action. Socionomics is a new worldview which ultimately requires a "Metanoia" or change of mind. Prechter provides ample evidence of his Socionomic proposition. But proof may not be enough at the present time. Observe smokers, holding a cigarette pack saying "smoking kills." Everyone knows that they kill, but they do not necessarily cognize it. Thus, smokers are happily smoking with at least one of their three brains. Investors are happy calculating P/E ratios and buying stocks which should do well. We don't cognize the market. Socionomics states that men make markets move in habitual ways which are rather precisely mirrored in popular culture. The New Science of Socionomics is an important touchstone in the search for intelligent life in financial markets. We should cognize it if we can.

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Rod

I would not recomend

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 8, 2015

I was an subscriber of "Elliott Wave International", for a few years.
It all sounds great and logical, however when it came to markets, the markets seemed to do the opposite.
The only way these people make money is by selling books, and luring others to take up subscriptions.
I would not recommend.

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Eugene Morrow

Spooky feeling of a breakthrough into the unknown

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2000

Imagine you were one of the first people to look through a telescope - and you suddenly found out that the sky was not merely wallpaper. You would have known that the discovery was a breakthrough, but what would happen would be spooky to think about.
That's how I feel reading Prechter's book about the new science of Socionomics. The telescope made sense of the jumble of lights in the night sky, as well as strange events like eclipses. The new science of Socionomics makes sense of a huge jumble of information in financial markets as well as strange events like crashes, manias, fads and fashions. The personality of markets and societies is linked directly to how our brains respond to certain types of input.
It is also a book that stirs up the back of your mind - are we really as independant in thinking as we imagine ourselves to be: how strongly are we influenced by the society around us? The book shows frightening evidence that our brains are hard wired to respond immediately to impulses stimulated by the human herd.
Overall, the book is like reading about the first observations from telescopes - it is a spooky glimpse into a world right in front of our faces that we've not understood until now. If you read it thoughtfully, the book will be both unsettling and inspiring in its implications.

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Creative destruction type book

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This book DESTROYED many of my cherished beliefs, which is exactly what I like to see! Robert Prechter is a rare individual indeed, not afraid to challenge the [conformist, consensus, severely [constrained, limited]] mainstream academics, who need this more than I. Furthermore, many of my long-held suspicions finally found expression - and I really wish I had read it when published in 1999! I have the same feeling about essentially ALL [government, academic] scientists as he does financial theorists. I suspect that this is a universal affliction of homo sapiens.

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