{"product_id":"what-we-owe-each-other-9780691207643","title":"What We Owe Each Other","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey \u0026amp; Company Business Book of the Year Award\"\u003cbr\u003e\"In this intelligent and lucid book, she calls for a new social contract based on three principles: security for all; investment in capability; and efficient and fair sharing of risks.\"\u003cb\u003e---Martin Wolf, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her new book \u003ci\u003eWhat We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract\u003c\/i\u003e, Minouche Shafik reviews where we stand, and quotes Yeats: ‘surely some revelation is at hand.’ The revelation required is that of an inextricably interlinked society.\"\u003cb\u003e---Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offer[s] a persuasive diagnosis of the present social malaise and offer[s] plenty of suggestions about what policymakers could do.\"\u003cb\u003e---Diane Coyle, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Books dealing with the social contract often tend to be soothing, even soppy. They quote Rousseau and construct grand theories. Minouche Shafik brilliantly avoids this pitfall, simply defining the social contract as what we can expect, in society, from each other.\"\u003cb\u003e---Julien Damon, \u003ci\u003eTelos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhat We Owe Each Other\u003c\/i\u003e … articulates why, when, and how government policies can help society reach its goals. Shafik wields her compelling personal experience and a wealth of academic research to argue for a more robust social contract and renewed commitment to shared responsibility. Readers will be left cautiously hopeful that governments can be a force for good and that a better tomorrow is possible.\"\u003cb\u003e---Andrew Stevens, \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhat We Owe Each Other\u003c\/i\u003e is data-driven, immensely informative, insightful, and provocative.\"\u003cb\u003e---Glenn C. Altschuler, \u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An appeal to use the occasion of the pandemic to recast our view of rights and obligations. . . . A welcome update of Rousseau-vian ideals of duty, responsibility, and reciprocity.\" * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"A persuasive argument for a new social contract to address modern inequalities and dissatisfaction.\" * Shelf Awareness *\u003cbr\u003e\"Progressive, pragmatic, and deeply empathetic.\" * Fast Company Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"An intelligent and honest attempt to tackle a broad range of problems\"\u003cb\u003e---John Phelan, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Experiment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862894608727,"sku":"9780691207643","price":17.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691207643.jpg?v=1759919023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-we-owe-each-other-9780691207643","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}