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Wed 08 Aug 2008What life will be like in 2050 for a middle-class Irish family
OPINION:Our grandchildren will face a complexity in decision-making that we can only imagine
IN 1930, the economist JM Keynes wrote Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. Keynes described his hopes for economic opportunities for his grandchildren's generation. Some of it he got wrong - he predicted that people wouldn't be able to enjoy the increased leisure their wealth and modern technology afforded them, and that the accumulation of wealth wouldn't be as high a priority any more.
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