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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren 75 Years after: A Global Perspective
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Fabrizio Zilibotti
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Number No. 344
ISSN 1424-0459
Date 2007
Abstract Text In the heart of the Great Crisis, amidst great uncertainty and concerns surrounding the future of capitalism, John Maynard Keynes launched his optimistic prophecy that growth and technological change would allow mankind to solve its economic problem within ancentury. He envisioned a world where people would work much less and be less oppressednby the satisfaction of material needs. To what extent have his predictions turned out to benaccurate? This essays attempts to provide some answers.
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