This fascinating book, packed with information, tells the story of that common cultural heritage and describes the provisions in place today and the options facing mankind in the 1990s.
I have read many books recently about economic history in the 20th and 21st centuries and it was interesting to contrast this reading with a book written in the 1980s when optimism was high that the world was going in the right direction to being better. It shows how the development of a just society has been going in the wrong direction for several decades now.