An informal survey of friends, family members, and acquaintances of colleagues found feelings of optimism dominating pessimism by a wide margin. While some of the optimists expressed reservations involving moral decline, the unalloyed pessimists were concerned mainly about environmental degradation and the lack of leadership for dealing with the problem.
The Next Fifty Years: Optimistic or Pessimistic?
By Bruce Yandle
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article
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the Summer 2020 issue of The Independent Review.
Other Independent Review articles by Bruce Yandle | ||
Spring 2020 | Narrative Economics:How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events | |
Winter 2019/20 | The Green New Deal:Why Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028 and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth | |
Spring 2018 | Who Is the Forgotten Man (and Woman) on the Fiscal Commons? | |
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