A Future History Of The World 1980 - 2020
We are watching the beginnings of a global economic boom on a scale never experienced before. We have entered a period of sustained growth that could eventually double the world's economy every dozen years and bring increasing prosperity for - quite literally - billions of people on the planet. We are riding the early waves of a 25-year run of a greatly expanding economy that will do much to solve intractable problems like poverty and to ease tensions throughout the world. And we will do it without blowing the lid off the environment.
For two major forces - fundamental technological change and a new ethos of openness - are driving through our era, forces that could bring about the Long Boom, a 25-year global expansion with all its consequences. This book presents a powerful vision of the world between 1980 and 2020 - a period of remarkable economic transformation that historians will look back on as an extraordinary moment.
