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So I'm a
social
psychologist, and I study morality, and one of the most important principles of morality is that morality binds and blinds.
But the third class of reforms is that we've got to change the nature of
social
relationships in Congress.
Now this is a
social
disaster, and liberals are very concerned about this.
This is after accounting for smoking,
social
class, diet, all those other known risk factors.
I'm not a psychiatrist, a
social
worker or an expert in domestic violence.
I was shielded from the pains of bigotry and the
social
restrictions of a religiously-based upbringing.
Young Libyan women and men were at the forefront calling for the fall of the regime, raising slogans of freedom, dignity,
social
justice.
Seen from those stairs, all politicians today seem the same, and politics has come to resemble a sport that inspires more aggressiveness and pessimism than
social
cohesion and the desire for civic protaganism.
Barack Obama won — (Applause) — because he mobilized people as never before through the use of
social
networks.
With PISA, we wanted to measure how they actually deliver equity, in terms of ensuring that people from different
social
backgrounds have equal chances.
And we see that in some countries, the impact of
social
background on learning outcomes is very, very strong.
We see in other countries that it matters much less into which
social
context you're born.
Nobody, and no country, can afford to be there, where performance is poor and there are large
social
disparities.
Germany, my own country, in the year 2000, featured in the lower quadrant, below average performance, large
social
disparities.
A lot was done to increase the life chances of students with an immigrant background or from
social
disadvantage.
And even those people who complain and say that the relative standing of countries on something like PISA is just an artifact of culture, of economic factors, of
social
issues, of homogeneity of societies, and so on, these people must now concede that education improvement is possible.
But usually that is linked to very strong
social
disparities.
This approach has been very successfully applied to many complex systems in physics, biology, computer science, the
social
sciences, but what about economics?
Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and
social
status and succession and companionship.
So instead of saying, "You guys go off into that bunker and come back with a cell phone or a
social
network," you say, "You go off and come up with one element, then bring it back.
So, the still-growing brain in this individual tells us that childhood, which requires an incredible
social
organization, a very complex
social
organization, emerged over three million years ago.
And I found there were planning techniques that I could take and adapt to our biological need, and from those I developed what we call holistic management and planned grazing, a planning process, and that does address all of nature's complexity and our social, environmental, economic complexity.
But worse than that, it is causing hunger, poverty, violence,
social
breakdown and war, and as I am talking to you, millions of men, women and children are suffering and dying.
I want to talk about
social
innovation and
social
entrepreneurship.
The real
social
innovation I want to talk about involves charity.
A lot of people say now that business will lift up the developing economies, and
social
business will take care of the rest.
And
social
business needs markets, and there are some issues for which you just can't develop the kind of money measures that you need for a market.
And the answer is, these
social
problems are massive in scale, our organizations are tiny up against them, and we have a belief system that keeps them tiny.
But we don't like nonprofits to use money to incentivize people to produce more in
social
service.
If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue; if you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow; and if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large
social
problems.
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