von IPSP | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog |
IPSP authors Marc Fleurbaey (Steering Committee), Gianluca Grimalda (ch. 8), and Ingrid Woolard (ch.3), along with Romina Boarini and Orsetta Causa of the OECD, wrote a policy brief for the G20 meeting this summer (see announcement here). You can read the following...
von IPSP | Mrz 13, 2017 | Blog |
This excerpt from Chapter 3 (Inequality and Social Progress) discusses the role that government policies can play in reducing inequality and improving economic opportunities for all. Policies can affect inequality through various mechanisms. An adaptation of the...
von Johan Schot | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog |
Authors: Johan Schot, Cian O’Donovan1 The role of science and technology in social progress will be drawn out as a special cross-cutting theme in the final ‚Rethinking Society for the 21st century‘ report. Uniquely, this theme has been subject to special...
von Pelin Tan | Mrz 25, 2016 | Blog |
Op-Ed by Assoc.Prof.Dr. Pelin Tan, Sociologist Lead-Author of „Towards the Urban Society“ – International Panel on Social Progress – Turkey A 17 year old Syrian refugee named Mohammed follows me to my...
von IPSP | Dez 11, 2015 | Blog |
This text is drawn from a longer speech given at the World Public Forum on ‘the dialogue between civilisations and the idea of a world order’. We speak much today of Islam, indeed do so obsessively, and we speak of its relations to the West, and when we do, we do so...
von Michel Wieviorka | Nov 18, 2015 | Blog |
A recent book by Sudhir Hazareesingh is entitled „A country that loves ideas: History of a French passion“ (Flammarion ed.). But this passion only applies unevenly. And in times of crisis more than ever, it is prompt to rely on categories that deserve more...
