Description: "Prediction has a venerable tradition among economists. In "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren," John Maynard Keynes, the well known classical economist,--even as the Great Depression was unfolding--famously threw aside the contemporary "attack of economic pessimism" and predicted that a century later the "standard of life" in economically progressive countries would be "between four and eight times as high as it is to-day." So pull up a chair and listen to our group of experts expound on what they think our economic future is going to look like in fifty years!"
Brief description: Robert M. Whaples is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, Co-Editor and Managing Editor of The Independent Review, Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University, Director and Book Review Editor for EH.NET, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Center on Culture and Civil Society at the Independent Institute. He is the co-editor of the Independent Institute books Is Social Justice Just?, In All Fairness, and Pope Francis and the Caring Society. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has also served as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Associate Editor of the Business Library Review, Chair of the Cliometric Society, and editor of EH.Net's Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History.
Review Quotes: "From P.J. O'Rourke to Deirdre McCloskey, lemonade stands to bitcoin blockchains, uber economics to omniphagic software, the power grid to the connected home, Future is a diverse and dynamic cornucopia of historians, futurists, humorists, prophets, and economists discoursing disruptively on the prospects for our 21st Century economy."--George Gilder, author of Life After Google, The Scandal of Money, and Wealth and Poverty; Founding Fellow, Discovery Institute