The Pandemic Within

Policy Making for a Better World

Hendrik Wagenaar, Barbara Prainsack (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2021
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-6223-4 (ISBN)

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This book offers a blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome the defects COVID-19 has exposed in our political-economic order. It shows how hegemony and complexity prevent societies from envisioning better practices and institutions and presents feasible solutions.

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, Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra. 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. She is also Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney and Honorary Affiliate at King’s College London.

1. Introduction: The pandemic within

2. At home in the world: overcoming the predicament of complexity and hegemony

3. Ensuring a well-functioning public infrastructure

4. Housing is a public good, not a commodity

5. Redefining work and income

6. The return of good government

7. Real corporate responsibility

8. Money as a public good

9. Living in the Anthropocene

10. Towards an ecological society

Erscheinungsdatum	26.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-4473-6223-3 / 1447362233
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-6223-4 / 9781447362234
Zustand	Neuware