Tag archive for ‘power’
Amartya Sen on Power, Justice and Capabilities
I have just come across the lecture of Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen talking about Power, Justice and Capabilities at the annual lecture of the Demos think tank a few days ago. This is the Demos blurb of it: For the Nobel prize-winner Amartya Sen, a good society is one populated by individuals with the [...]
Reconnecting Power and Politics
Social democrats need to reassert the protective power of the state – this time through global institutions. Ten years ago Gerhard Schröder declared that: ‘economic policy is neither left not right. It is either good or bad’. Today we can conclude that this was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then, eleven out of fifteen governments of the [...]
