The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
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The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
Date Written: April 2012
Abstract
Following on Keynes's Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, this paper develops conjectures about the world we will leave to our grandchildren. It starts by outlining the 10 most important trends that have defined our economic, social, and political lives over the last 100 years. It then provides a framework for interpreting these trends, emphasizing the role of the expansion of political and civil rights and institutional changes in this process. It then uses this framework for extrapolating these 10 trends into the next 100 years.
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