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2018 welcome to 175 birthday of The Economist founded by James Wilson 1843 - we hope you will enjoy sampling valuetrue media and mapping - up to 1990 The Economist regularly surveyed peoples nations however scary their history to celebrate possible future trading win-wins of people and sustainability worldwide - we hope to see this joyful purpose of media return to BRI.school as every young person joins in asking whether their continents coastal belts and over land Roads/Grids are designed to sustain happy trades and livelihoods or the exact opposite - Little Sister Sustainability or Big Brother climate and human collapse?

These are the most exciting times to be alive - as parents decide whether to invest in youth and change children's education in time for them to help every community thrive. Where will World Record Jobs Creators turn up to celebrate millennials as the first sustainability generation- EconomistDiary.com -help search out event where leadership collaboration inspires changes to how everything is taught

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update 2020...Shall we design markets for 10 billion, 3 bn or zero people?.. EconomistDiary.com-. As people concerned by community and global media, this is our fast moving understanding of what partners in UN's great debate on sustainability goals (17 goals is a lot for one screen -more at EconomistRefugees.com) is about? we (eg 6 generations of diaspora scots mediating community health across 4 hemispheres) love to hear what you think the purpose of sustainability goals education is. rsvp [e-mail] Depending what languages and faiths you use, different origins to this debate can be found. The one my scottish diaspora family knows best started 175 years ago in 1843 around James Wilson. His first concern was whether it was possible to design markets so that 2 islands - britain and ireland- grew in peace. He founded The Economist in 1843 to host what became a 17 year debate during his life time. The results were mixed  ..continued here

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July 2018: breaking news from EconomistDiary, Norman Macrae Foundation partners with BRAC- Bangladesh's and girl empowerment's hub of WISE world's first education laureate to host futures roundtables of girls' fintech and edutech. October 1-7 sees our 3rd event following roundtables with Sir Fazle Abed and Kamal Quadir which were both kindly staged by the Japan Embassy in Dhaka, Though largely unacknowledged. dad , Norman Macrae, was awarded The Emperor's Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Bars for relentlessly arguing that essential to sustainability goals would be a return to people/family centric economics ; :Population-wise this would be led by the East especially the tenth of the world's young women living in China and Bangladesh. We aim to celebrate the recent fintech partnership between www.bkash.com of www.brac.tv and Jack Ma's Ant Finance of Alibaba -which is set to bank for empowering the poorest 2 billion on the planet. Moderating the week will be Ying Lowrey, Chinese academia's lead researcher of Ali Baba, featuring fresh news of the new global business school and all curricula celebrating SME value chain: (More on Professor Lowrey of Tsinghua.)

 (3rd week of July_) Jack Ma was just invited by the UN's Guterres to lead a new panel on digital cooperation in every market : first report march 2019 ready for 100 nation's leaders of Belt Road Imagineering (EconomistDiary April 2019 Beijing BRI 2.0 host Xi Jinping).

On Dhaka's Road to Beijing, friends of BRAC and ALIRESEARCH hope to progress edutech connections -ref why Norman Macrae's Entrepreneurial Revolution demanded a sea-change in education if sustainability is to be all parents' gift to millennials livelihoods and joy of being universally connected. [e-mail] washington dc 240 316 8157

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Jack Ma and Melinda Gates report due Spring 2019 in time for sustainability's top 100 national leaders to celebrate at the second BRI.school summit to be hosted by Xi Jinping Beijing May 2019

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Worldwide Update for linking in peoples sustainability world trades during 1461 days of Trumpdom - see how to use map at @obamauni #TheEconomist or this linkedin group on Jack Ma's FifthEconomy 

From The Economist 1976 Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution by Norman Macrae; celebrated across Italy with Romano Prodi - where are friends  of small enterprise globalisation today? Norman died 2010- april 2017 Romano Prodi  at Beijings ThinkinChina -Norman's 3 MVPs of Entrepreneurial Revolution

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Muhammad Yunus, Chief Guest Norman;s last public birthday party St James, London, 2008

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• 1977 survey China:: 45th annual entrepreneurial revolution challenge (est The Economist 1972) www.cyberchinacenter.com and worldcitizen.tv - best news China open spaces G20 : SME every market, One Belt forum: upgrade inter-hemisphere trade infrastructure, celebrate www.supercity.university Big Data Small eg blockchain social services, transform livelihood-rich education

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Breaking 2016-Valuing Youth or Losing Sustainability .1962 Consider Japan:1967 Japan Rising part 2.1 1972'sNext 40 Years ; 1975Asian Pacific Century 1975-2075 1976's Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution; 12 week leaders debate [e-mail] Washington DC text/mobile [phone] x   1982's We're All Intrapreneurial Now; why not silicon valley for all 7 May 1977 survey of Two Billion People- Asia What will human race produce in 20th C Q4? - Jan 1975 (1984 book on net generation 3 billion job creation) ... 1991 Survey looking forward to The End of Big Banks contoling Politicians ...

partnering 7 billion peoples' S-goals-Goal 17 WorldClassBrandsNetwork founded 1988 when norman macrae retired from 40 years as The Economist's end poverty ... -our network linksin youth and journalists concerned with mediating better futures for next generations. We publish the transformational genre of how world's most resourced organisations partner intergenerational sustainability ; explore conscious purposes of market sectors triangularised by global youth. In our league tables: brands valuing youth the most:BRAC is number 1 global youth trust most critical to sustainability - chinese women for 3 reasons: numerically quarter of a billion of them; increase in their livelihoods potential out of every community is huge economically and socially; sustainability goals and global youth trust must be the fashion of our era -and its always empowerment of young women who move fashions and hope

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Curriculum of Entrepreneurial Revolution was started up in The Economist by father Norman Macrae 1 2 to debate 4 greatest ignorances that the rich'swestern world was starting the 4th quarter of the 20th century with.

 

inconveniences of 20th C politicians TV born to boss Macrae@86 First 1000 leaders anon include birth of EU 1955 UK National Health Service Economist, Norman 1962 Consider Japan: 1967 Japan Rising part 2.1 his greatest debates on youth futures start in 1972 when he saw students experimenting with digital networks: 1972's Next 40 Years ; 1976's Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution; 12 week leaders debate 1982's We're All Intrapreneurial Now What will human race produce in 20th C Q4? - Jan 1975 (1984 book on net generation 3 billion job creation) ... 1991 Survey looking forward to The End of Politicians 1975 Asian Pacific Century 1975-2075 1977 survey China first of 4 hemisphere remembrance parties- The Economist Boardroom ...................................................	Not understanding what failed system is identified with rural poverty -eg lack on infrastructures of electricity, educational-communications, running water and sanitation, roads and so time-sensitive supplies of life critical goods including basic nutrition infants need World RecordPOP Kim Abed Yunus Soros POP Broadband	Vested interests spinning societies to turning blind eye to slum and semi-urban poverty World Record Empowerment Women4 Asia4 Africa4 Americas4	Denial of our species biggest danger that 3 halves of the world - women, youth, poorest as yet have less than 10% voice in what futures compound World Record Open Edu 5 billion elearn with Yazmi Mandela Extranet Ma-Lee Gandhi-Italy
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Help millennials end inconveniences of 20th C politicians & tv? 2010 sample tour of Norman Macrae- 15 years into his career at The Economist, Norman is asked to sign his first survey 1962 Consider Japan: 1967 Japan Rising part 2.1 his greatest debates on youth futures start in 1972 when he saw students experimenting with digital networks: 1972's Next 40 Years ; 1976's Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution; 12 week leaders debate 1982's We're All Intrapreneurial Now What will human race produce in 20th C Q4? - Jan 1975 (1984 book on net generation 3 billion job creation) ... 1991 Survey looking forward to The End of Politicians 1975 Asian Pacific Century 1975-2075 1977 survey China first of 4 hemisphere remembrance parties- The Economist Boardroom . . . . . . .

-what are best ways of learning about such ideas as: 1972: Over the next 2 generations two thirds of humanity should be raised from intolerable indigence to something better than that which a third of us already enjoy. The remaining aim of the political economist should be to support whatever system she thinks could cause this to happen more quickly or more smoothly  By 1984 Norman Macrae challenged at least 5 sectors to get 8 times more economical in order to sustain the Net generation. Take health services for example  8 Times More Economical may sound like hopeful optimism to some, but more detailed scrutiny of what Norman wrote shows that there were often two-cubed value  multipliers. Take health for example in 1984:  Better care at one eighth the cost? Cover Below The Economist. Saturday, 28 April 1984. Pages 23,24. Vol 291, issue 7339.   . Atsufumi Yokoi likes a discussion inDiary of The Job Creating Net Generation.  Chris MacraeConcepts for redesigning 4 value chains of obama yes we can generat... Probably the most exciting moment for American youth this century was around the time obama made this inauguration speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEajBQ9gmQ  This was not about partisan...more  Puddle - A different way of thinking about banking. Pool money... Puddle lets friends pool money together, to save with and invest in each other. Anyone can borrow money from the puddle, and everyone benefits as it's paid back. Learn how your money can support you and your friends. 20h ago Atsufumi Yokoi likes a discussion inDiary of The Job Creating Net Generation.  Chris Macraeplease tell us what your city can linkin to atlanta or any largest ... ...more 20h ago ...     3) 1948 diaries reveal the right old muddle around which the NHS started- with hindsight could not most economists map a design that compounded in a 2 times more economical way?       2) the coming mobilisation of information technology could surely double efficiency by sharing life-saving information and connecting remote experts with local emergency interventions       1) there should be courageously mediated choices (however politically incorrect) on what a public system should not cover - if for example father's statistic that over half of national health costs are connected to keeping of people alive for an extra year, then such national mis-spending is at odds with every parent who strives to see their children have a better livelihood opportunity in the future than the past  (ultimately the only way a place can wholly develop)

Norman Macrae last journalist mentored by Keynes, whose General Theory concluded  1) "increasingly economics rules the world" and 2) greatest risk to youth's productivity is elderly macroeconomists. Norman's 40 years of journalism at The Economist aimed to help net generation prevent ruin by economists by collaborating entrepreneurially in 10 times more productivity out of every community. On seeing 50 youth on a digital net in 1972, Norman coined term Entrepreneurial Revolution -2012 being 40th year of debates of www.erworld.tv

 

 

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The Economist. Saturday, 22 January 1972. 2011-2012: 40th year: dialogue started with networks of The Economist in 1972: how to prevent macroeconomists collapsing global financial economy in 2012.

 

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Norman Macrae nearly 4000 leaders @ The Economist. By tradition only surveys were signed. 1962, Norman's 14th year of 40 at The Economist saw his first survey "Consider Japan" signed. Next year: he led a team to USSR: survey forecast communism would die within a quarter of a century. Decade later 1972 survey" gave western economists a maximum of 40 years to prevent meltdown of global financial system; whence his joyful surveys on Entrepreneurial Revolutionmapped where leaders were redesigning the net generation's most productive futures - forecasting in 1975 the asian pacific worldwide century and journalising the first book of the internet's economic and social business media significance in 1984.

 

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Norman Macrae judged Female and Youth grassroots networks of Bangladesh as the winners of The Economist's Entrepreneurial Revolution net generation competition 1976-2005. He spent his last 5 years preparing to co-launch Journal Genre of New Economics starting up Yunus Partnership @ Journal of Social Business with Adam Smith Scholars & Friends of Bangladesh's 40 year test marketing of microeconomics and global village networking. 

 

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011 ad from Economist The global economy – Another year of living dangerously Turmoil in the Middle East, Collapsing Euro and disaster in Japan arouse economic angst. Central banks must not make it worse READ MORE >> Macroeconomic crises have a dismal way of recycling each quarter of a generation AND getting larger as global disasters. Reviews at worldeconomist.net ER's Ten green bottles  Breakthrough erroneous mindsets of macroeconomics before there is nothing left at all: #1 Entrepreneurs-and good news media owners - are not political- they connect left right and centre dialogues Verify Top 2 pro-youth economists:  Norman Macrae 1923-2010 & the most exciting microeconomist of our epoch & net generation : Muhammad Yunus born 1940 ... The Economist. Saturday, 25 December 1976. Pages 41-43. Vol 261, is...   Italian 76 translator of Entrepreneurial Revolution Romano Prodi ,,,,,,   Postcards from Entrepreneurial Paris 2011  at Embassy of France in DC - the French rediscovery of the love of their original idea "entrepreneur" would love to see danone communities launch an english language version at same time usa co-producer SfH french embassy 24 hubs of MIT and obama startups and mcs and G.Am PDF] Program File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View Jan 31, 2011 DC: Embassy of France... Dinner. Welcome by François Delattre, Ambassador of France... Moderated by Ira Gershkoff, MITEF Chapter Vice Chair ... President Barack Obama's Startup America Initiative ... www.france-science.org/IMG/.../Program_MIT_Enterprise_Forum_2011.pdf . Better care at one eighth the cost? Cover Below The Economist. Saturday, 28 April 1984. Pages 23,24. Vol 291, issue 7339. News from the Yunus Partners in End Nurseless Villages pioneered by Nike Girl Effect , Glasgow Caledonian and village girls   march 2011 princess anne caps first class of Grameen Girl nurses April Glasgow team lead celebrations starting  World Healthcare Congress - xtremely affordable teams  help find 100 most  entrepreneurial revolutionary articles or nation's future economics scripts The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant Norman Macrae ever wrote   00 1972 the next 40 years - map of why global financial system would  go into meltdown in 2010s if specific errors of macroeconomics not resolved in interim 0 1984 the internet generation can be 10 times more productive : their most exciting decade 2010s depends on doubling knowledge around ending poverty first 1 2008 consider bangladesh 2 1962 consider japan 3 1975 consider asian pacific www century ->4  1975 americas 3rd century - Time review 5 1976 entrepreneurial revolution 6 1982 intrapreneurial now  7 1984  healthcare is compounding bust futures everywhere 250 years yunus to adam smith trilliondollaraudit.com     According to General Theory of Keynes:  increasingly only economics rules the world; Thus 2 opposite system-round choices :  dismal macroeconomics of old wall street, or youth's joyous microeconomics& sustainability exponentials rising Norman Macrae's main books include: 1955 London Capital Market 1963 Sunshades in October 1984 with Chris Macrae The 2024 Report - aFuture History of The Net Generation to 2024 republished over next 2 years in many languages as 2025 Report or  2026 Report with a 1993 update in Swedish : Den Nye Vikingen - Sweden's Future 1995-2015 1992 John Von Neumann = Biography plus Scenario chapters of Hackett's 3rd world war series aimed at military wanting to downsize themselves so that peace dividend is invested in net generation's borderless world

Radical Reaction : Advert to book compiling several early Hobarts from Institute of Economic Affairs  The Economist. Saturday, 14 October 1961.Page 34. Vol 201, issue 6164.

Consider Japan Part 1 - Survey by Norman Macrae The Most Exciting Example News The Economist. Saturday, 1 September 1962.Pages 53,54. Vol 204, iss...   Consider Japan Part 2 Lessons for Developers? The Economist. Saturday, 8 September 1962.Pages 57-61. Vol 204, iss...

Changing Russia - Survey led by Norman Macrae The Mustard Seed The Economist. Saturday, 1 June 1963.Pages 16,17. Vol 207, issue 6249.

Ad of Norman Macrae's Book Sunshades in October (no free reviews allowed of books by E-journaists) The Economist. Saturday, 16 November 1963. Page 57. Vol 209, issue 6273.

1980 to 1989 extract from 2024/2025 report written 1984The 20th C Economist's end poverty deputy editor Norman Macrae's alternative "little sister"/ womens empowerment" future alternative to macroeconomists', big-low-trust-tech: orwells big brother -  full book free download right hand side  Changing education There has been a sea-change in the traditional ages on man. Compared with 1974 our children in 2024 generally go out to paid work (especially computer programming work) much earlier, maybe starting at nine, maybe at twelve, and we do not exploit them. But young adults of twenty-three to forty-five stay at home to play much more than in 1974; it is quite usual today for one parent (probably now generally the father, although sometimes the mother) to stay at home during the period when young children are growing up. And today adults of forty-three to ninety-three go back to school - via computerised learning - much more than they did in 1974. In most of the rich countries in 2024 children are not allowed to leave school until they pass their Preliminary Exam. About 5 per cent of American children passed their exam last year before their eight birthday, but the median age for passing it in 2024 is ten-and-a-half, and remedial education is generally needed if a child has not passed it by the age of fifteen. A child who passes his Prelim can decide whether to tale a job at once, and take up the remainder of his twelve years of free schooling later; or he can pass on to secondary schooling forthwith, and start to study for his Higher Diploma. The mode of learning for the under-twelves is nowadays generally computer-generated. The child sits at home or with a group of friends or (more rarely) in an actual, traditional school building. She or he will be in touch with a computer program that has discovered , during a preliminary assessment, her or his individual learning pattern. The computer will decide what next questions to ask or task to set after each response from each child. A school teacher assessor, who may live half a world away, will generally have been hired, via the voucher system by the family for each individual child. A good assessor will probably have vouchers to monitor the progress of twenty-five individual children, although some parents prefer to employ groups of assessors - one following the child's progress in emotional balance, one in mathematics, one in civilized living, and so on - and these groups band together in telecommuting schools. Many communities and districts also have on-the-spot 'uncles' and 'aunts'. They monitor childrens' educational performance by browsing through the TC and also run play groups where they meet and get to know the children personally... Some of the parents who have temporarily opted out of employment to be a family educator also put up material on the TC s for other parents to consult. Sometimes the advice is given for free, sometimes as a business. It is a business for Joshua Ginsberg. He puts a parents advice newsletter on the TC , usually monthly. Over 300 million people subscribe to it, nowadays at a 5-cent fee per person, or less. Here's an entry from the current newsletter: "Now that TCs are universal and can access libraries of books, 3-d video, computer programs, you name it, it is clear that the tasks of both the Educator and the Communicator are far more stimulating that ten years ago. One of my recent lessons with my ten-year-old daughter Julie was in art appreciation. In the standard art appreciation course the TC shows replicas of famous artists' pictures, and a computer asks the pupil to match the artist to the picture. Julie said to the computer that it would be fun to see Constable's Haywain as Picasso might have drawn it. The computer obliged with its interpretation , and then ten more stylised haywains appeared together with the question 'who might have drawn these?'. I believe we are the first to have prompted the TC along this road, but it may now become a standard question when the computer recognises a child with similar learning patterns to Julie's. It is sometimes said that today's isolated sort of teaching has robbed children of the capacity to play and interact with other children. This is nonsense. We ensure that Julie and her four year old brother Pharon have lots of time to play with children in our neighbourhood . But in work we do prefer to interact with children who are of mutual advantage to Julie and to each other. The computer is an ace teacher, but so are people. You really learn things if you can teach them to someone else. Our computer has helped us to find a group of four including Julie with common interests, who each have expertise in some particular areas to teach the others. The TC also makes it easier to play games within the family. My parents used to play draughts, halma, then chess with me. They used to try to be nice to me and let me win. This condescending kindness humiliated me, and I always worked frenetically to beat my younger brother (who therefore always lost and dissolved into tears.) Today Julie, Pharon and I play halma together against the graded computer, and Julie and I play it at chess. The computer knows Pharon's standard of play at halma and Julie's and mine at chess. Its default setting is at that level where each of us can win but only if we play at our best. Thus Pharon sometimes wins his halma game while Julie and I are simultaneously losing our chess game, and this rightly gives Pharon a feeling of achievement. When Julie and I have lost at chess, we usually ask the computer to re-rerun the game, stopping at out nmistakes and giving a commentary. As it is a friendly computer it does a marvelous job of consoling us. Last week it told Julie that the world champion actually once made the same mistake as she had done - would she like to see that game? I intend to devote the next two letters to the subjects I have discussed here , but retailing the best of your suggestions instead of droning on with mine." While the computer's role in children's education is mainly that of instructor (discovering a child's learning pattern and responding to it) and learning group matcher, its main role in higher education is as a store of knowledge. Although a computer can only know what Man has taught it, it has this huge advantage. No individual man lives or studies long enough to imbibe within himself all the skills and resources that are the product of the millennia of man's quest for knowledge, all the riches and details from man's inheritance of learning passed on from generation to generation. But any computer today can inherit and call up instantly any skill which exists anywhere in the form of a program. This is why automatically updated databases are today the principal instruments of higher education and academic research. It is difficult for our generation to conceive that only forty years ago our scientists acted as tortoise-like discoverers of knowledge, confined to small and jealous cliques with random and restricted methods of communicating ideas. Down until the 1980s the world has several hundred sepaate cancer research organisations with no central co-ordinating database.  chapter 20x chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 part 1  chapter 3 part 2 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8 chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11 part 1  chapter 11 part 2 chapter 12 chapter 13 chapter 14 chapter 15 chapter 16 chapter 17 chapter 18 chapter 19   chapter 21 Norman Macrae June 23 2010, 1:01am, The Times follow the Ma: jack has spent since 1994 searching for where big-small chnage will come to chich markets - so fast moving consumer goods chnaged by ecommerce; finance and social sharing markets eg bikes by mobile apps-clouds; furniture by OTO;  jobs education and happiness sectors by 1 refugee and bodrer crossings, 2 expereintial learning olympics and the games of education of youth as sustainability goals generation on every belt road map Macrae: he was an elegant writer of original ideas who delighted in paradoxes Share Save In a list of 20th-century British prophets without honour in their own land, the name of Norman Macrae would surely be in the top half dozen. The lack of recognition was particularly odd as Macrae was a journalist, a profession cluttered with self-promoting egos, and his subjects — economics, politics, technology and several more — were standard fare in pubs and Parliaments. There was hardly an aspect of life that was off-limits for him; through his writing he changed many minds and opened even more; most of his ideas were ahead of their time; and he was incapable of writing a dull sentence. And yet, in Britain at least, his achievements went largely unheralded. The contrast was not lost on Macrae — his articles delighted in paradoxes of every kind — but it was easily explained. In 1949 he joined The Economist, then as now a publication without bylines, and did not leave it until he retired in 1988. Though he went on to write several books and a column in The Sunday Times, as well as becoming an enthusiastic blogger, his finest phrases and most original ideas appeared in The Economist. He was its deputy editor from 1965-88, and though he hoped to become editor he never let frustrated ambition stunt the enormous role he played in the publication’s success. When he joined the paper in 1949, its circulation was roughly 30,000, on a par with The Spectator and the New Statesman. By the time he left, its circulation had grown to more than 300,000, dwarfing the other two. It had indeed become, in Macrae’s words, the “world’s favourite viewspaper”. Norman Macrae was born in 1923 and went to Mill Hill School in north London. In 1935 he moved with his parents to Moscow, where his father was British Consul. The memories of Stalin’s purges, and of Hitler’s pogroms during another paternal posting, fuelled Macrae’s passionate belief in freedom — just as his experience in the RAF, as a navigator in bombing raids over Germany, later turned him against the waste of war. In 1945 he went up to Corpus Christi, Cambridge, to read economics. He was not impressed (“Much of Cambridge’s intellectual atmosphere then was of subpolytechnic Marxism”), and it was only when he arrived at The Economist that all the pieces fell into place and his life really began. Despite its anonymity, The Economist was the perfect pulpit for Macrae. It allowed him to roam, geographically as well as intellectually, and it gave him the time to explore big ideas, many of which appeared in the paper’s surveys — the only occasion when authors had a byline. Perhaps the most remarkable was “Consider Japan” in 1962; long before Westerners realised there might be something to learn from that defeated and hidebound nation, Macrae predicted Japan would become the world’s greatest manufacturer. One reader wrote to the editor urging that, next time Macrae went travelling, he should take a hat with him so the sun wouldn’t addle his brain. Macrae’s articles were full of such prescience. In 1973, when oil prices quadrupled, he wrote that they would collapse — which they did, just as spectacularly, two years later. When others were extolling the settled borders of the mixed economy in the 1960s and 1970s, he was predicting a global wave of privatisation. In 1983 he forecast the Berlin Wall would come down in Christmas 1989; he was out by just six weeks. He repeatedly disputed the CIA’s analysis of the size and strength of the Soviet economy, and was in due course proved right. And in 1984 he described not just the coming of the internet but also the effects it would have on how people would work and where: “Eventually books, files, television programmes, computer information and telecommunications will merge ... There will be cheap terminals around everywhere ... [which] will be used to access databases anywhere in the world, and will become the brainworker’s mobile place of work.” One of the abiding temptations of futurologists is to predict what they wish for, and Macrae sometimes did just that. He had a deep distrust of politicians and officialdom, so naturally favoured a small state. Hence his words, describing a book he wrote in 1984 called The 2024 Report: “The main event of 1990-2010 was that the world’s 60-year spasm of big government disappeared. We stopped letting politicians spend the absurd 45 per cent of GNP in countries like Britain ... and we all came down to more like the 10 per cent of GNP spent through government in America in 1929.” That was one of Macrae’s blind spots. The other was most obvious in the 1970s, when he urged the Heath Government on to bigger and bigger fiscal deficits in pursuit of faster growth and lower unemployment. It was one of the few occasions where his thinking was behind events. It took him some years to shed such crude Keynesianism and come to accept that his supply-side crusades were the surer path to faster growth. Macrae was the most generous of colleagues, a much loved figure who in private struggled to string words into a half coherent sentence — until he picked up his pen. He was also an effective public speaker who for years delighted American audiences with his unique mix of eccentricity and brilliance. He was honoured by the Japanese with the Order of the Rising Sun in 1988. Perhaps that finally stirred the men in Whitehall, as he was appointed CBE later that year. Macrae had a long and happy marriage to Janet Kemp, who died in 1994. They had a son and a daughter, who died in 1989 when she was 34. It needed a man of great resilience to take such blows, but nobody who knew Macrae could ever doubt that his was indeed a big heart............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Norman Macrae, CBE, journalist, was born on September 10, 1923. He died on June 11, 2010, aged 86    ? -  Jun 11, 2010  (d.) Bio/Description A British economist, journalist and author, considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society. These forecasts mapped back to system designs mediated so that readers and entrepreneurial networks could exponentially calibrate shared alternative scenarios. He joined The Economist in 1949 and retired as its deputy chief editor in 1988. He foresaw the Pacific century, the reversal of nationalization of enterprises, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the spread of the internet, which were all published in the newspaper during his time there. Not to get bored, his first ten years in retirement produced the biography of Johnny Von Neumann (the mathematical father of computers and networks), a column for the UK Sunday Times, and a 'Heresy Column' for Fortune. He was the father of mathematician, marketing commentator, and author Chris Macrae. Their joint future history on death of distance in 1984 forecast that 2005-2015 would be humanity's most critical decade irreversibly impacting sustainability. In 1984, he wrote "The 2024 Report: a future history of the next 40 years". It was the first book to: provide readers with a brainstorming journey of what people in an internetworking world might do, and predict that a new economy would emerge with revolutionary new productivity and social benefits enjoyed by all who interacted in a net-connected world. In this book, he wrote: "Eventually books, files, television programmes, computer information and telecommunications will merge. We'll have this portable object which is a television screen with first a typewriter, later a voice activator attached. Afterwards it will be miniaturised so that your personal access instrument can be carried in your buttonhole, but there will be these cheap terminals around everywhere, more widely than telephones of 1984."  Y  [e-mail] :: rowp.tv  :: linkedin UNwomens :: WASHINTGON DC TEXT HOTLIENE (USA=1) 240 316 8157 chapter 20x chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 part 1  chapter 3 part 2 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8 chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11 part 1  chapter 11 part 2 chapter 12 chapter 13 chapter 14 chapter 15 chapter 16 chapter 17 chapter 18 chapter 19   chapter 21

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was the following The Economist's greatest article on the question: how does the world's largest creditor nation impact youth's futures?

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Asia Pacific Century survey continues here The embarrassed heir
The Economist. Saturday, 4 January 1975.
Pages 15-18. Vol 254, issue 6854.

 

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article 1 in series on gross world product

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From Norman macrae's Entrepreneurial Revolution , The Economist 25 Dec 1976

 

The increase in gross world product during the last 2

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There is consideable virtue in the Schmidt, Giscard, Jenkins proposal that the Euopean...

.. wihout particular incentives, flat-rate, all-round. A multi-billion dollar opportunity for reform has been thrown away.

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