Fwd: Larry Summers - Foreign Affairs - The Fusion of Civilizations
[{"sender": "Kelly Friendly", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "May 4, 2016 at 2:05:48 PM EDT", "subject": "Larry Summers - Foreign Affairs - The Fusion of Civilizations", "body": "The Fusion of Civilizations\n\nThe Case for Global Optimism\n\nForeign Affairs\nMay/June 2016 issue\nBy Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence H. Summers\n\nThe mood of much of the world is grim these days. Turmoil in the\nMiddle\nEast, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees;\nrandom terrorist attacks across the globe; geopolitical tensions in eastern\nEurope and Asia; the end of the commodity supercycle; slowing growth in\nChina; and economic stagnation in many countries-all have combined to\nfeed a deep pessimism about the present and, worse, the future.\n\nHistorians looking back on this age from the vantage point of later\ngenerations, however, are likely to be puzzled by the widespread\ncontemporary feelings of gloom and doom. By most objective measures of\nhuman well-being, the past three decades have been the best in history.\nMore and more people in more and more places are enjoying better lives"}, {"sender": "Lesley Groff", "recipients": ["Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>"], "timestamp": "5/4/2016 6:06:21 PM", "subject": "Fwd: Larry Summers - Foreign Affairs - The Fusion of Civilizations", "body": ""}]