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Universal prosperity: investing for a plentiful future

Published on July 30, 2026   37 min

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Interviewer: Today I'm interviewing Chris Bradley, Director of the McKinsey Global Institute and a senior partner in Sydney at McKinsey and Company on his article written with joint authors Marc Canal Noguer and Nick Leung titled: A Path to Universal Prosperity by 2100, published in Project Syndicate on the 6th of February 2026 and his book, written with the same two co-authors plus Sven Smit titled: A Century of Plenty, A Story of Progress for Generations to Come, published in January 2026 by McKinsey Global Institute. The subject is global prosperity. Listeners are expected to have read the article, better still, the book, before listening to the interview. Mr. Bradley, firstly, thank you for sparing the time. In the article, you make the bold claim that by 2100, the world's poorest can live as well as people in Switzerland do today with its high incomes, longer lifespans, quality education, and robust social support. Let me, for the moment at least, accept that as reasonable. I do so to ask about the social implications of that possibility if it becomes manifested. Although it will happen over three generations, it will take place, for those born today, within a single lifetime. Their formal education is likely

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