1st Edition

How Societies Learn

By Daniel Yankelovich Copyright 2000
64 Pages
by Routledge

64 Pages
by Routledge

64 Pages
by Routledge

The theme of Daniel Yankelovich's Zetterberg Lecture is timely and urgent: how do societies learn? We know that individuals can learn, but can collectivities do likewise? More specifically, how can complex political systems adapt to a changing world? Yankelovich focuses specifically on the severe problems of the different attempts to treat welfare in the United States and Sweden.  What kind... Read more
1: To the well-being of society; 2: The global market economy; 3: Promise and peril; 4: The American response; 5: The Swedish welfare state; 6: Social learning; 7: Lurch and learn; 8: Applying social learning to the welfare state; 9: Characteristics of the lurch; 10: Reciprocity

Biography

Daniel Yankelovich