A REPLY TO BERRY, MODIS AND MODELSKI

We are deeply grateful to Harold Linstone for accepting our article [1 ] together with the criticism of it made by three prominent scholars [ 2-4]. We consider that this kind of academic discussion is extremely u seful for the better understanding of the basic ideas presented in our article. In what follows we examine the main criticism topically: fir st, the objections of the philosophical foundations and most general p rinciples of our model; then to several misinterpretations of the func tionality and predictability of it; and finally to some specific criti ques. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Inc.