Keynes’ Grandchildren
5 min readNov 9, 2019
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes, who was considered the world’s foremost economist of his own time, published an essay with the title “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. In this essay, Keynes speaks of a world to come, 100 years from the date that the essay was published, where prosperity would have grown so much that humanity would no longer have to struggle to survive. At that time, England was at the tail end of the second industrial…
