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But the pessimists and doomsayers who say that the world can't get better are simply wrong.
So are the pessimists right?
And that is, I understand that optimists greatly outlive pessimists.
But the pessimists cannot be dismissed out of hand.
Even the pessimists are speaking only of lower positive growth.
First, some technological pessimists – such as Northwestern University’s Robert Gordon – argue that the economic impact of recent innovations pales in comparison to that of the great innovations of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions (the steam engine, electricity, piped water and sanitation, antimicrobial drugs, and so on).
Neither the optimists nor the pessimists were correct.
China’s economy is on the brink of collapse, pessimists warned.
According to some pessimists, the US Constitution was not designed to address the challenges of a country so sharply divided by income, race, and partisanship.
The world’s major powers are far more interdependent financially and in terms of supply chains than they were in 1914 – the year of misguided optimism that pessimists love to cite – and the cumulative horrors of the twentieth century have fundamentally changed the normative environment.
But pessimists have been growing in number and influence.
Still, some observers – and not just chronic pessimists – have countered that the evidence remains anecdotal, and that it is impossible to predict how long the current economic moment will last.
When confronted with the numbers, pessimists respond by insisting that China’s recent strong economic performance is only temporary – a product of yet more unsustainable stimulus.
But whether or not the pessimists turn out to be right about China, it is odd that business investment remains tepid even during times when the engine of global growth is located elsewhere, such as in the US or Europe (Germany in particular).
The pessimists, on the other hand, think that such gaps may be a structural, lasting feature of today’s economies.
Optimists and pessimists both have good arguments.
But information, the pessimists point out, is not knowledge.
On the other side are China pessimists.
The third group comprises the “China accommodators,” who combine the optimists’ goals with the pessimists’ wariness.
A similar bias is evident in criticism by the West – and by Africa’s pro-Western China pessimists – of China’s so-called resource diplomacy in Africa.
And, however committed the China pessimists are to free markets, there is no denying that China’s state-controlled economy has lifted millions of people out of poverty and created a rapidly burgeoning middle class.
In fact, while the pessimists may not like the idea of closer ties with China, the reason it is necessary – economic globalization – actually derives from the Washington Consensus principles that they so cherish.
Pessimists would immediately point out that Europe has struggled to come together even on far less complex and more controllable issues, such as the protracted economic and financial crisis in Greece.
But I argued that this was irrelevant: making up the states' shortfall would cost the government nothing if the optimists turned out to be right, but it would be just the right medicine if pessimists like me were correct.
"Withdrawal" of the sort pessimists predict, indeed, actually happened already in the late 80s after the Chinese and British governments signed their joint declaration announcing the handover.
Optimists say that solar energy will become economical without subsidies later this decade, while pessimists put the break-even point in the 2020s.
Pessimists fear that today’s liberal democracies will be no match for the external challenges mounted by illiberal states like China and Russia, which are guided only by hardnosed realpolitik.
To pessimists, the introduction of these so-called general-purpose technologies – including 3-D printing, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things – threatens the demand for labor; without new forms of social solidarity, such as a universal basic income, the future will be one of widespread destitution.
So the US middle class has been doing much better than the statistical pessimists assert.
Even pessimists acknowledge the incipient wave of technology in life sciences, artificial intelligence, and robotics around the world.
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