ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS STUDIES
A MANIFESTO FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS Ideas for a Better Society
Marc Fleurbaey
Ravi Kanbur
Princeton University, New Jersey
Cornell University, New York
With Olivier Bouin
Helga Nowotny
Réseau français des instituts d’études avancées, (RFIEA), Paris
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic Sciences-Po, Paris
October 2018 228 x 152 mm 246pp 53 b/w illus. 4 tables 978-1-108-42478-3 Hardback £34.99
WHY IT WILL SELL • Based on collaborative research by over three hundred social scientists focusing together on how to promote social progress • Offers a new vision to rethink and reform key social institutions to create better societies based on human dignity, sustainability, and justice • Provides motivation and concrete actions for promoting positive social change
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Elisa Reis Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Foreword by Amartya Sen
At this time when many have lost hope amidst conflicts, terrorism, environmental destruction, economic inequality, and the breakdown of democracy, this beautifully written book outlines how to rethink and reform our key institutions – markets, corporations, welfare policies, democratic processes, and transnational governance – to create better societies based on core principles of human dignity, sustainability, and justice. This new vision is based on the findings of over three hundred social scientists involved in the collaborative, interdisciplinary International Panel on Social Progress. Relying on state-of-the-art scholarship, these social scientists reviewed the desirability and possibility of all relevant forms of longterm social change, explored current challenges, and synthesized their knowledge on the principles, possibilities, and methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Their common finding is that a better society is indeed possible, its contours can be broadly described, and all we need is to gather forces toward realizing this vision.
CONTENTS Introduction: the future is in our hands; Part I. Much to Worry, Reasons for Hope: 1. Looming catastrophes; 2. Globalization and technology: choices and contingencies; 3. The expanding circle of respect and dignity; 4. The big challenge; Part II. Acting for Social Progress: 5. In search of a new ‘third way’; 6. Reforming capitalism; 7. From the welfare state to the emancipating state; 8. From polaritics to politics; Conclusion: mobilizing change-makers.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Level: undergraduate students, graduate students
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