Six poèmes en prose

Klaus Rifbjerg

3-5

A free-falling society? six introductory notes

Nordal Åkerman

6-28

Re-discovering friction

all that is solid does not melt in air

Helga Nowotny

31-57

An exemplary physical disposition

Rom Harré

61-76

Friction of bodies, friction of minds

Agnes Heller

77-84

Friction and warfare

Chris Donnelly

87-119

Let us now praise dragging feet!

Ottar Brox

123-134

Social change induced by technology

promotion and resistance

T. R. Lakshmanan

135-158

Inertia and development models

Georg Sørensen

159-177

Friction in economics

Keith Griffin

181-195

Essential friction

error-control in organizational behavior

Gene I. Rochlin

196-232

Playing, writing, wrestling

Sigrid Combüchen

235-247

Why things don't happen as planned

Jon Elster

248-257

The desire for order

Joanne Finkelstein

261-270

Stay in my house

Kaj Nyman

271-279

Unpredictability, frictions and order

Åke E. Andersson

280-290

Friction and inertia in industrial design

John Heskett

291-308

Frictionless forecasting is a fiction

Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus

311-326

Frictions

Michel Tournier

329-330