Although first written mainly to an American readership, Megatrends proved to be true in anticipating major shifts for the whole world.

More than 9 Million copies were sold in 58 countries, and it was on the New York Times Bestsellers list for two years, mostly as #1.
Twenty years after its publication, Christoph Keese in the Financial Times looked back:

Once a decade, sometimes more often, a book about the economy is published that becomes a bestseller immediately and changes the relationship of people to economics….his predictions were astoundingly precise –