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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 resurgence...

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 European...

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 the...

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 democracy to...

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...