Daniel
W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to Post Everything.
I
had sufficient amounts of leisure time to read Derek Thompson’s long read in
the Atlantic about “A
World Without Work” — which I suppose helps to partially validate
Thompson’s hypothesis. The article suggests that John
Maynard Keynes’s prediction made in 1930 that in the span of a
century, “the economic problem may be solved, or be at least within
sight of solution, within a hundred years.”
Keynes
elaborated on the effect this could have:
