What We Owe Each Other (eBook)

A New Social Contract for a Better Society

Minouche Shafik (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22027-7 (ISBN)

Infos

From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change.Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience-raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old-and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return.Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society-together.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 18 b/w illus. 2 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Adult Education • adult learning • Affordable Care Act • Amartya Sen • Beveridge Report • Capitalism • Carbon Footprint • Career • cash transfers • child care • Childcare • Competition • Consumption (Economics) • Copyright • Cost–benefit analysis • Covid • Covid-19 • debt • Demography • Department for International Development • developed country • Developing Country • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • economics and women • economist • economy • Education • Elder care • Eldercare • elderly care • Employment • entitlement • Environmentalism • Environmental policies • environmental protection • Fabian Society • Financial crisis of 2007–08 • flexible work schedule • Funding • Future Generation • Future Generations • Future of Work • Globalization • Government Debt • grandparent • Gratitude • Guaranteed minimum income • Health Care • Health Economics • health insurance • Health system • Household • Incentive • income • income distribution • Independent living • Infant Mortality • Informal Sector • Infrastructure • Institution • insurance • Interest Rate • intergenerational • job benefits • job flexibility • Job Security • Latin America • Life Expectancy • Lifelong Learning • Meta-analysis • Milton Friedman • minimum wage • Natural capital • obamacare • Obesity • Parental leave • Participation (decision making) • Payment • Payroll tax • Pension • Politician • Politics • Poverty • precarious work • prenatal care • private sector • Provision (contracting) • Publishing • Requirement • Retirement • Retirement age • retirement planning • Sanitation • saving • Skill • Social Insurance • Social Policies • Social Policy • Social protection • social safety net • standard of living • Subjective Well-Being • Subsidy • Suggestion • Tax • Tax Incidence • tax revenue • Technology • Thomas Piketty • Trade Union • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • universal health care • unpaid work • wage • Wealth • welfare • Welfare State • well-being • Workforce • Work–Life Balance • World Bank Group • World Health Organization • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22027-1 / 0691220271
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22027-7 / 9780691220277