"... the idea of the future being different from the present is so repugnant to our conventional modes of thought and behavior that we, most of us, offer a great resistance to acting on it in practice." - John Maynard Keynes, 1937
This phrase was chosen as a motto for the new NIC's Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds. I'm wondering whether it is an advantage or an disadvantage for both progressive economists and the political left when authors of a NIC report choose this motto. An end of the era of TINA? In explaining the choice of the second motto - from Dickens' "A Tale of two cities" - it reads: "The backdrop for 'A Tale of Two Cities' was the French Revolution and dawn of the Industrial Age. We are living through a similar transformative period in which the breadth and scope of possible developments - both good and bad - are equal to if not greater than the aftermath of the political and economic revolutions of the late 18th century." The publication can be found on http://www.dni.gov/nic/globaltrends http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/GlobalTrends_2030.pdf New York Times: Study Predicts Future for U.S. as No. 2 Economy, but Energy Independent http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/world/china-to-be-no-1-economy-before-2030-study-says.html China Daily: US report sees Asia's global power rising by 2030 http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2012-12/10/content_16004043_2.htm _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
