Rethinking Society for the 21st Century
Launch of the IPSP report
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The University of Bergen is proud to announce that on June 20, the report 鈥淩ethinking Society For The 21st Century鈥� will be launched at Bergen Summer Research School.
Chair IPSP, Robert E. Kuenne Professor of Economics and Humanistic 大象传媒, Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
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Professor, Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Senior Economist in the Development Economics Vice Presidency of the World Bank. He co-leads the Mind, Behavior, and Development Unit (), which integrates behavioral science into the design of anti-poverty policies worldwide.
,聽with a background in social sciences and law, is a human rights activist and scholar and is聽Associate Professor in the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Ole F. Norheim
Professor, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen
- Lead author of Chapter 18) Global Health and The Changing Contours of Human Life; and聽Chapter 22) The Contributions of Social Sciences to Policy and Institutional Change
The report, published聽by the Cambridge University Press, outlines what the best social science has to say about positive social change.聽
An interdisciplinary team of scientists 鈥� supervised by Nobel Prize economist and philosopher Amartya Sen 鈥� have worked with the report from 2014-2017. More than 300 authors selected by an international and multidisciplinary scientific council have contributed, and the drafting process included collecting comments from a global network of scholars, civil society, activists, governments, and international organizations.聽
The authors offer a cautious optimistic conclusion: multiple ideas for social progress and better policies are already available and deserve to be tested and implemented!
聽(IPSP) is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies.聽IPSP unites many of the world鈥檚 leading researchers from social sciences and the humanities in a single effort: developing research-based, multi-disciplinary, non-partisan, action-driven solutions to pressing challenges of our time.
This event is open to the public!
