Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Volume 1, Socio-Economic Transformations
Report of the International Panel on Social Progress

Assesses the achievements of world societies, the trends and dangers, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century.

International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) (Edited by)

9781108436328, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 July 2018

372 pages, 61 b/w illus. 1 map 21 tables
27.9 x 21.7 x 1.8 cm, 1.06 kg

'The publication of the first Report of the International Panel on Social Progress is a significant intellectual event, both because of its hugely ambitious aim - of uniting the world's leading researchers from social sciences and the humanities to develop research-based, multi-disciplinary, non-partisan, action-guiding solutions to the central challenges of our time - and because it represents the completion of a mammoth effort in the service of this aim by a diverse set of 269 authors.' Alexander Raubo and Alex Voorhoeve, Economics and Philosophy

This is the first of three volumes containing a report from the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The IPSP is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Written in accessible language by scholars across the social sciences and humanities, these volumes assess the achievements of world societies in past centuries, the current trends, the dangers that we are now facing, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century. It covers the main socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social progress, global as well as regional issues, and the diversity of challenges and their interplay around the world. This particular volume covers topics such as economic inequality and growth, finance and corporations, labor, capitalism, and social justice.

Introduction to Volume 1
1. Social trends and new geographies
2. Social progress: a compass
3. Economic inequality and social progress
4. Economic growth, human development and welfare
5. Cities and social progress
6. Markets, finance, and corporations: does capitalism have a future?
7. The future of work – good jobs for all
8. Social justice, well-being, and economic organization
Authors
Index.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP], Public administration [JPP], Political science & theory [JPA], Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC], Social & political philosophy [HPS]