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Rethinking Society for the 21th Century: Developing a Science and Technology Studies Perspective
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 co-ordination...
Martin Hopenhayn on sociocultural paradoxes of modernization
Martin Hopenhayn is a Chilean philosopher and serves as a lead author for Chapter 15 - Social Progress and Cultural Change. In this interview, he discusses some sociocultural paradoxes of modernization. Examples include the rise of secularism coupled with a resurgence...
Karl Ove Moene discusses egalitarian economies and inequality in developing countries
Karl Ove Moene is a professor of economics at the University of Oslo and serves as a coordinating lead author for Chapter 8 - Social Justice, Well-Being and Economic Organization. In this interview, he discusses the state of the more egalitarian Northern European...
Stephan Klasen explains the importance of interdisciplinarity
Stephan Klasen is a professor of development economics at the University of Göttingen and serves as a lead author for Chapter 3 - Inequality and Social Progress. In this interview, he discusses the necessity of using an interdisciplinary approach to identifying the...
Prabhat Patnaik on the effect of globalization and democracy
Prabhat Patnaik is an economist and Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University and serves as a lead author for Chapter 20 - Belonging and Solidarity. In this interview, he warns about the potential of globalization to threaten democracy. He relates democracy to...