A short book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner who argues for the bold thesis that humanity’s perceptions of the shape of things to come has gone through three phases.
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In the Silent Revolution book, Ronal Inglehart broke new ground by discovering a major shift in the values of the advanced industrial societies that gave priority to individual autonomy and self-expression.
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