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It can kick-start a major drive to enact climate legislation across Latin America that would create low-carbon, economically resilient societies.
By acting now, they will set their countries – and the wider world – on a new course, giving rise to prosperous, inclusive, and resilient societies this decade and beyond.
Let’s help people build their own societies.
To survive and thrive, societies need to pay special attention to those activities that produce goods and services they can sell to non-residents.
Of course, in societies that are basically in good shape, both psychologically and materially, such moral fables - such wishful thinking, really - rarely do much harm and can often do considerable good.
Dangerous to the people who are fated to live in desperately poor countries, or societies at war, or overwhelmed by refugees, or struck down by pandemics.
In information-based societies, networks are replacing hierarchies, and knowledge workers are less deferential.
Research shows that even in democratic societies, women face a higher social risk than men when attempting to negotiate for career-related resources such as compensation.
This bias is beginning to break down in information-based societies, but it is a mistake to identify the new type of leadership we need in an information age simply as “a woman’s world.”
Investing in road infrastructure tends to be regressive in societies where only a minority own automobiles.
Beyond all of these carrots, however, societies should consider using some sticks.
I defined its objectives as opening up closed societies, making open societies more viable, and promoting a critical mode of thinking.
The open societies of the West did not feel a strong urge to promote open societies in the former Soviet empire.
The regimes that are now emerging in the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia bear little resemblance to open societies.
As long as the Soviet Union provided a clear threat to the open societies of the West, the defects of geopolitics did not matter.
Instead of a simple dichotomy between open and closed societies, I see the open society as occupying a middle ground, where rights of the individual are safeguarded but where there are also some shared values that hold society together.
The key concept for understanding what open societies are about is that of our own fallibility, which extends not only to our mental constructs but also to our institutions.
What is different today is the response to it, with societies and institutions refusing to remain complicit in corruption, or resigning themselves to its inevitability.
From the steam engine to the personal computer, inventions have transformed societies in complex ways.
Because of the inherent dignity of human beings, modern societies do not allow people to sell themselves, or their children, into slavery.
Saez and Diamond argue that the right marginal tax rate for North Atlantic societies to impose on their richest citizens is 70%.
It is an arresting assertion, given the tax-cut mania that has prevailed in these societies for the past 30 years, but Diamond and Saez’s logic is clear.
When Things Fall ApartLONDON – All over the world today, there is a sense of the end of an era, a deep foreboding about the disintegration of previously stable societies.
In this sense, many societies are already “over-educated.”
Today, that is becoming impossible: we are creating societies in which the sheep and the goats are marked for life in their teens.
The Future is OldMUNICH – The aging of our societies is one of the greatest success stories of the twentieth century.
This is an accomplishment well worth celebrating; but we must also bear in mind that with increased longevity come significant long-term economic consequences – and that many societies are aging at a record speed.
Not only will their societies be rapidly aging; diminishing income gaps between rich countries and emerging economies are likely to slow immigration flows, shrinking the workforce by 20% in the eurozone and 15% in the United States.
Today, just three countries – Germany (21%), Italy (22%), and Japan (26%) – qualify as super-aged societies.
As societies around the world prepare for swelling numbers of retirees, the policy challenge will be to ensure the financial sustainability of pension systems while guaranteeing adequate incomes for those no longer working.
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