The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond

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 pro...

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Main Author: Acemoglu, Daron
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge,MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70537
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description 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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spelling mit-1721.1/705372019-04-10T13:24:35Z The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond Acemoglu, Daron civil rights economic growth institutions political rights technological change war 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. 2012-05-07T21:41:18Z 2012-05-07T21:41:18Z 2012-04-06 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70537 No Working paper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics;12-09 An error occurred on the license name. An error occurred getting the license - uri. application/pdf Cambridge,MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spellingShingle civil rights
economic growth
institutions
political rights
technological change
war
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The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
title The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
title_full The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
title_fullStr The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
title_full_unstemmed The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
title_short The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
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economic growth
institutions
political rights
technological change
war
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