20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century (2003)

by Bill Emmott

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Drawing on the characteristic developments of the last century, Emmott sketches out the challenges that face the world in the next. This book should appeal to the managerial and investing classes, as well as everyone who seeks to apreciate more clearly the key assumptions on which public and commercial policy will be based in the coming decade.… (more)

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An exercise in post-9/11 USA glorification, with the US as the ones who have never done anything wrong in their entire existence, and the EU and all other international organizations being useless wastes of time.

Disgusting to read. Besides, a few years after publication, most assumptions have already been proven wrong. (

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surreality | Aug 24, 2008 |

I want to go back and revisit this book of prognostications by an editor of THE ECONOMIST.

wfzimmerman | Jul 2, 2007 |

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Drawing on the characteristic developments of the last century, Emmott sketches out the challenges that face the world in the next. This book should appeal to the managerial and investing classes, as well as everyone who seeks to apreciate more clearly the key assumptions on which public and commercial policy will be based in the coming decade.

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