America Beyond 2001 | Economic Scenarios: From Boom to Collapse

Chances are that the current decade has not been particularly kind to you. . . .

How and when will the economy fully recover? Or if the economic landscape is undergoing not merely a slow change in seasons but instead a fundamental structural transformation, what new postindustrial world are we moving toward? Since so much rides on the answers, social and economic forecasters across the U.S. are busily charting scenarios of how the future may play out—in many cases alternative scenarios. Governments and major corporations base long-range plans on such scripts, which at their...

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