Paul Krugman, professor of economics at Princeton, was the winner of a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2011/
“Expanding Social Security” by Paul Krugman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/opinion/krugman-expanding-social-security.html?_r=0
Perhaps the “no-brainer” can become a new consensus. The future could be full of community centers, free Internet books, cloud workers and soft power!
The time is right for alternative economics, reducing working hours, person-oriented work, labor-intensive investment, qualitative growth, access not excess and enough not more.