by IPSP | Dec 11, 2018 | Media-zh, Video Spotlight |
On Tuesday, December 18th, the Futuribles International research center hosted a round-table discussion about the IPSP report. Located in Paris, France, the Futuribles center is a leader in “foresight studies” about the long-term future of the world....
by IPSP | Jul 1, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Steering Committee member, Marc Fleurbaey, shares the motivation behind the International Panel on Social Progress: Its vision, its goals, and its methodology. What is social justice and how can we bridge academic expertise and real-world change? How will the research...
by IPSP | Jun 16, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Martin Hopenhayn is a Chilean philosopher and serves as a lead author for Chapter 15 – Social Progress and Cultural Change. In this interview, he discusses some sociocultural paradoxes of modernization. Examples include the rise of secularism coupled with a...
by IPSP | Jun 16, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Karl Ove Moene is a professor of economics at the University of Oslo and serves as a coordinating lead author for Chapter 8 – Social Justice, Well-Being and Economic Organization. In this interview, he discusses the state of the more egalitarian Northern...
by IPSP | Jun 16, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Stephan Klasen is a professor of development economics at the University of Göttingen and serves as a lead author for Chapter 3 – Inequality and Social Progress. In this interview, he discusses the necessity of using an interdisciplinary approach to identifying...
by IPSP | Jun 16, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Prabhat Patnaik is an economist and Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University and serves as a lead author for Chapter 20 – Belonging and Solidarity. In this interview, he warns about the potential of globalization to threaten democracy. He relates...
by IPSP | Jun 16, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Samia Huq is a professor of anthropology at BRAC University in Bangladesh and serves as a lead author for Chapter 16 – Religious Communities, Ideas and Practices. In this interview, she explains how in the past, religion has been thought to impede human flourishing in...
by IPSP | Jun 16, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Ronaldo Munck is a sociologist at Dublin City University and serves as a lead author for Chapter 1 – Social Trends and New Geographies. In this interview, he explains why increasing populations in developing countries such as the BRICS must reconcile economic...
by IPSP | Jun 15, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Ana Falú is a professor and researcher of architecture at the National University of Cordoba and serves as a lead author for Chapter 5 – Cities. In this interview, she discusses the paradoxes of growth in cities that disallow women from achieving social equality in...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Stefano Bartolini is an economist at the University of Siena and serves as a lead author of Chapter 2 – Social Progress… A Compass. In this interview, he emphasizes the importance of creating intimate and social relationships in achieving happiness and...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Colin Crouch is a former professor of political science and sociology at the University of Warwick and serves as a lead author for Chapter 9 – The Paradoxes of Democracy and the Rule of Law. In this interview, he explains how economic inequality can strain...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Mustapha Nabli is a development economist at the Economic Research Forum in Tunisia and serves on the Honorary Advisory Committee and as a lead author of Chapter 6 – Markets, Finance and Corporations: Does Capitalism Have a Future? In this interview, he...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
David de la Croix is an economist at Université Catholique de Louvain and serves as a lead author for Chapter 4 – Economic Growth, Human Development and Planetary Welfare. In this interview, he describes the relationships between economic growth and demographic...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Gili Drori is a sociologist at Hebrew University and serves as a lead author of Chapter 19 – How Can Education Promote Social Progress? In this interview, she explains how governance of education is no longer solely in the hands of governments, and describes the...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Ottmar Edenhofer is an economist of climate change at PIK and MCC in Berlin and serves as a coordinating lead author for Chapter 4 – Economic Growth, Human Development and Planetary Welfare. In this interview, he discusses the need for strict climate...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Fernando Filgueira is a sociologist at El Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay and serves as a lead author of Chapter 8 – Social Justice, Well-Being and Economic Organization. In this interview, he describes flaws in welfare systems and discusses how...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
César Rodríguez-Garavito is a professor of law at Universidad de los Andes and serves as a lead author of Chapter 11 – Supranational Organizations and Technologies of Governance. In this interview, he explains the necessity of including marginalized populations in...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Gianluca Grimalda is a behavioral economist at IFW Dresden and serves as a lead author of Chapter 8 – Social Justice, Well-Being and Economic Organization. In this interview, he discusses the positive correlation between globalization and social cooperation on local...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Karin Aggestam is a professor of political science at Lund University and serves as a lead author of Chapter 10 – Violence, Wars, Peace, Security. In this interview, she advocates for the necessity of grassroots peace movements in contrast to counterproductive...
by IPSP | Jun 14, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Johannes Siegrest is a professor of medical sociology at the University of Düsseldorf and serves as a lead author of Chapter 7: The Future of Work: Good Jobs for All? In this interview, he discusses the disparities of quality of work conditions across geographies, and...
by IPSP | Feb 8, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Paula Casal is an ICREA Professor at the Law Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra and serves as a Lead Author for Chapter 2: Social Progress… A Compass. In this video, she discusses several topics including the connection between poverty and environmental...
by IPSP | Feb 8, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Sanjay Reddy is an Associate Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research and serves as a Lead Author for Chapter 3: Inequality and Social Progress. In this video, he discusses several topics including growth trends in various countries, globalization,...
by IPSP | Feb 8, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada and serves as a Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 15: Social Progress and Cultural Change. In this video, he describes how liberal multiculturalism...
by IPSP | Feb 8, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Rob Reich is a Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Stanford University and serves as a Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 19: How Can Education Promote Social Progress? In this video, he explains the importance of establishing widely available education...
by IPSP | Feb 7, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Ilona Kickbusch is the Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and serves as a Lead Author for Chapter 18: Global Health and The Changing Contours of Human Life. In this video, she discusses...
by IPSP | Feb 7, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Hilary Charlesworth is a Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University, and serves as a Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 11: Supranational Organisations...
by IPSP | Feb 4, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Naila Kabeer is a Professor of Gender and Development at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, and serves as a Lead Author for Chapter 1: Social Trends and New Geographies. In this video, she discusses gender roles in the home and...
by IPSP | Feb 4, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Elisa Reis is a Professor of Political Sociology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and serves on the Steering Committee, the Scientific Council, and as a Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 1: Social Trends and New Geographies. In this video, she...
by IPSP | Feb 4, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Dan Hausman is a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves as a Lead Author for Chapter 18: Global Health and The Changing Contours of Life. In this video, he describes how one of the fundamental causes of social injustice is a shortage...
by IPSP | Feb 3, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Dan Wikler is a faculty member in the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health at the School of Public Health and serves as a Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 18: Global Health and The Changing Contours of Life. In this video, he discusses some social injustices...
by IPSP | Feb 3, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Frances McGinnity is joint co-coordinator of Equality and Integration Research at the Economic and Social Research Institute and serves as a Lead Author for Chapter 7: The Future of Work – Good Jobs for All? In this video, she speaks about how managing the...
by IPSP | Feb 3, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Arne Kalleberg is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and serves as a Lead Author for Chapter 7: The Future of Work – Good Jobs for All? In this video, he discusses how job security and economic stability for...
by IPSP | Feb 3, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Eden Medina is a professor of informatics and computing, law, and history at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is also a Lead Author of Chapter 11: Supranational Organisations and Technologies of Governance. In this video, she discusses how data privacy policy...
by IPSP | Feb 3, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Avner de-Shalit is a political philosopher and Max Kampelman Chair of democracy and human rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and serves as a Lead Author for Chapter 8: Social Justice, Well-Being and Economic Organization. In this video, he talks about the...
by IPSP | Feb 3, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Stephen Castles is a sociologist and political economist at the University of Sydney and serves as a Lead Author for Chapter 1: Social Trends and new geographies. In this video, he describes how migration has become a significant effect of globalization and...
by IPSP | Feb 1, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Rajeev Bhargava is a Professor at the Centre for Political studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and serves as a Lead Author for Chapter 14: Perspectives for Democracy and Equality. In this video, he discusses how the definition of political secularism...
by IPSP | Feb 1, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
David Schkade is a Professor of Management and Strategy at UC San Diego, and serves a member of the Scientific Council of the IPSP as well as a Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 8: Social Justice, Well-Being, and Economic Organization. In this video, he talks about...
by IPSP | Feb 1, 2016 | Video Spotlight |
Huiyan Fu is a social and organizational anthropologist at the Regent’s University of London, and serves as a Lead Author of Chapter 7 – The Future of Work: Good Jobs for All? In this video she describes global issues with labor inequality. She also...
by IPSP | Dec 15, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Hiroshi Ono is an expert on happiness research and discusses the link between social justice and well-being, and the need for broader measures of social progress. He explains why happiness varies across countries with different social institutions. 分类...
by IPSP | Nov 5, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Greg Shaffer discusses the accountability of governing bodies Greg Shaffer is a professor of law at UC Irvine who is serving as a lead author for Chapter 11: Supranational Organizations and Technologies of Governance. In this interview, he discusses different ways...
by IPSP | Nov 5, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Saskia Sassen on the global city Saskia Sassen is a professor of sociology at Columbia University and serves as a coordinating lead author of Chapter 5: Cities. In this interview, she explains the role of global cities as networks rather than competitors, and...
by IPSP | Nov 4, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Nancy Ammerman on the coexistence of religion and progress Nancy Ammerman is a professor of sociology of religion at BU, and is serving as a coordinating lead author for Chapter 16: Religions, Communities, Ideas, and Practices. In this interview, she explains the...
by IPSP | Nov 4, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Michèle Lamont discusses relationships between stigmatization and policymaking Michèle Lamont is a sociologist and professor at Harvard who is serving as a lead author for Chapter 20: Belonging and Solidarity. Her recent work specializes in how culture contributes to...
by IPSP | Nov 3, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
John Roemer on cooperation as a vehicle for social equality John Roemer is an economist and professor of political science at Yale who is serving as a lead author for Chapter 8: Social Justice, Well-Being and Economic Organization. In this interview, he explains how...
by IPSP | Nov 1, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Andreas Peichl discusses the relationship between taxes and the redistribution of income and opportunities Andreas Peichl is Professor of Quantitative Public Economics at the University of Mannheim and serves as a lead author for Chapter 3: Inequality and Social...
by IPSP | Nov 1, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Martin O’Neill on the exclusivity of capitalism Martin O’Neill is a political philosopher who teaches in the Politics department at the University of York and is serving as a lead author for Chapter 6: Markets, Finance and Corporations — Does...
by IPSP | Oct 31, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Julie Cohen discusses the implications of surveillance on human rights Julie Cohen Mark is the Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown Law and is serving as a lead author of Chapter 13: Media, Communication and Languages. In this...
by IPSP | Oct 23, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Amartya Sen’s Opening Remarks for the IPSP’s First Author Meeting in Istanbul this past August Amartya Sen is is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University. His research includes economic theory,...
by IPSP | Oct 13, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Akeel Bilgrami explains the unalienated life Akeel Bilgrami works as a philosopher on the link between politics and culture. He discusses the difficulty for liberalism to deal with identity politics, invokes Gandhi’s critique of modernity, the tension between...
by IPSP | Oct 13, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Sheila Jasanoff introduces science and technology studies Sheila Jasanoff explains the relevance of the field of science and technology studies to the question of progress, including social progress, and introduces to her own work at the boundary of law on change, on...
by IPSP | Oct 3, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
Elke Weber on decision making and social progress Elke Weber explains the importance of how we make decisions in order to understand the processes by which policies are shaped and institutions are formed and transformed. Recent Posts IPSP in Le Monde IPSP in...
by IPSP | Aug 20, 2015 | Video Spotlight |
What the IPSP is all about… Saskia Sassen, John Roemer, Nancy Ammerman, Sheila Jasanoff, Elke Weber and Akeel Bilgrami have taken the time to tell you about the IPSP. In the video below, they describe the goals of the panel and the impact that they hope the...
