TY  - JOUR
AU  - Acemoglu,Daron
TI  - The World our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17994
PY  - 2012
Y2  - April 2012
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17994
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17994.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Daron Acemoglu
Department of Economics
MIT, E52-380B
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA  02142-1347
Tel: 617/253-1927
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: daron@mit.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -