&quot;Nearly eighty years ago, John Maynard Keynes did the math on economic growth and concluded that within a few generations—by the time his peers&#x27; great-grandchildren came of age in, say, the 2000&#x27;s—the persistent economic problem of too-scarce resources and too-few goods would no longer bedevil a substantial portion of humanity. He was right—even in the midst of our current hard times, he is right.&quot; (2009) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bradford-delong.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;01&#x2F;we-are-live-at-the-week-our-economic-appetite.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bradford-delong.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;01&#x2F;we-are-live-at-the-we...</a>