Gallup’s World Poll reveals new findings on the ‘great global dream’ and how it will affect the rise of the next economic empire More and more often, global leaders are asking us the same simple, yet colossal, question: ‘Does anyone know for sure what the world is thinking?’ There is a great deal of classic economic data that records an infinite amount of human transactions, from GDP to unemployment to birth and death rates, that indicate what man and woman are doing, but there is no ongoing, infinite, systematic account of what man and woman are thinking. Global leaders are right to wonder. To know what the whole world is thinking — not just what people in their own countries are thinking — on almost all issues all the time would certainly make their jobs a lot easier at the very least. At most, knowing what the world is thinking would create newfound precision in world leadership. Leaders wouldn’t make mistakes and miss opportunities because they misjudge the hearts and minds of their constituencies and the other 6 billion with whom those constituencies interact. We think we have found a very good answer to that very […]