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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.20 - 21 Vision: Twentieth Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century - Bill Emmott, Editor, The Economist
This speech was presented a Fraser Institute Round Table Luncheon on June 11, 2003.
As The Economist's editor in chief for the past decade, Bill Emmott has had a prime vantage point from which to observe the pageant of world events. In his new book 20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century, he combines journalistic insights with historical analysis to show how the challenges of the last hundred years can shed light on those to come in the next hundred.
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Bill Emmott
Bill Emmott is Editor of The Economist magazine published in London, England. Prior to his appointment as Editor in March1993, Bill Emmott held posts with The Economist in Brussels, London, and Tokyo. In mid-1986, he became Financial editor then Business Affairs editor responsible for all business, finance and science coverage. He has written two bestsellers on Japan's economy both published in English and Japanese. He is currently working on a book version of the 1999 extended essay he wrote for The Economist on the 20th century called Freedom's Journey. This book is to be called 20/21 Vision and will be published in Britain and the USA. He studied politics, philosophy and economics at Magdalen College, Oxford.… Read more