Publishing with a purpose
Published
Aug 25, 2021Page count
152 pagesISBN
978-1447362234Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressClick to order from North America, Canada and South America
Published
Aug 25, 2021Page count
152 pagesISBN
978-1447362227Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressClick to order from North America, Canada and South America
Published
Aug 25, 2021Page count
152 pagesISBN
978-1447362241Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressClick to order from North America, Canada and South America
The Pandemic Within
COVID-19 has exposed defects in our current political-economic order: extreme wealth inequality, an ideology-driven government, a greedy corporate sector, a precarious labour force and a looming climate catastrophe.
This accessible book offers a unique blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome these defects. It focuses on two characteristics of contemporary societies - hegemony and complexity - that have inhibited our ability to imagine, and take seriously, better practices and institutions.
Considering housing, work, governance, finance, climate change and more, this book presents feasible and pragmatic solutions which are informed by a comprehensive vision of a flourishing, sustainable and richly democratic society.
Hendrik Wagenaar is Senior Academic Advisor at the International School for Government at King’s College London and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria.
Barbara Prainsack is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna and Director of the interdisciplinary research platform Governance of Digital Practices.
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: The Pandemic Within
2. At Home in the World: Overcoming the Predicament of Complexity and Hegemony
3. Ensure a Well-Functioning Public Infrastructure
4. Housing is a Public Good, Not a Commodity
5. Redefining Work and Income
6. Towards Good Government
7. Real Corporate Responsibility
8. Toward Public Money
9. Living in the Anthropocene
10. Towards an Ecological Society
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