Homo economicus. Keynes and Russell, One Hundred Years Later
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In this article we refer to a text by J. M. Keynes and another by B. Russel written in the 1930s. Both forecasted that we would currently be working a reduced workday of about four hours a day. Why have the predictions of these two great 20th-century geniuses with their inmense knowledge failed so profoundly? Why is this idea now appears as utopian or even absurd when at that time seemed simply common sense? We will also review a text by Chesterton on the same problem, in which he addresses what he considers a very worrying diagnosis about the mental health of our capitalist societies.
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