The book, released next week, explores how the nation will evolve in the next four decades. Last week, Dr. Kotkin published an essay in Forbes Magazine about what he called “America’s Agricultural Angst.” Among other things, the professor explained that current political efforts will have a profoundly negative impact on farming, particularly “stricter rules on the use of pesticides, prohibitions on the caging of chickens and a growing movement to ban the use of genetic engineering in crops.” These policies, and others like them, “could undermine a sector that has performed well over the past decade and has excellent long-term prospects,” he said.
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Executive Editor JOEL KOTKIN on The Washington Post regarding China
In a book due out next month, the international futurist says China isn’t likely to overtake the United States as the world’s economic superpower in coming decades, countering predictions of some forecasters who believe the Chinese economy will be the global leader by 2020.
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Executive Editor JOEL KOTKIN on The Washington Examiner regarding liberalism
But I sense that something more fundamental is at stake. Obama in his first year adopted the priorities of what pundit Joel Kotkin, a Democrat himself, calls the “gentry liberals.” Obama called for addressing long-term issues like health care and supposed climate change. He and his economic advisers, like many analysts across the political spectrum, underestimated the rise in unemployment. Talk about “green jobs” has proved to be just talk.