what you get here

This is not a blog which opines on current events. It rather uses incidents, books (old and new), links and papers to muse about our social endeavours.
So old posts are as good as new! And lots of useful links!

The Bucegi mountains - the range I see from the front balcony of my mountain house - are almost 120 kms from Bucharest and cannot normally be seen from the capital but some extraordinary weather conditions allowed this pic to be taken from the top of the Intercontinental Hotel in late Feb 2020

Monday, June 19, 2023

Snippets

Whenever an item on the internet catches my eye, I copy its url and transfer it to a special file which has now grown to 40 pages. Time therefore to share some of these treasures with my readers - I've grouped them thematically – thus

  • Good Writing

  • Central and Eastern European

  • The Nordic Model

  • Social Scientists

Good Writing

Central and Eastern European

I write from Romania about whose political culture I often commentBut the country is simply one of many which are subsumed under a label which is, apparently, losing its meaning


The NORDIC MODEL moves the geographical focus north to Scandinavia and tries to explore whether the Nordic Model is managing to live up to its myths. The Nordic model is a 2007 publication from economists from the region. This article from Jacobin suggests that Norway was, in 2021, still on track but other reports paint a darker picture.


Social Scientists Look Ahead. In 2019 I paid tribute to clutch of social scientists who had got together to form the International Panel for Social ProgressI have since discovered a whole range of other work they have done

https://www.ipsp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IPSP-Executive-Summary.pdf

https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GSJ9_Summit-2023-Edition.pdf

https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Global-Solutions-Journal-Issue-8.pdf

https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Global-Solutions-Journal-7-Summit-2021-Edition.pdf

https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GFRE-Noble-B-Economics-Society-and-the-Pre-eminent-Role-of-Values-2023_05_24_DN_GE.pdf

https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Long-Shadow-of-History_DRAFT.pdf

https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/A-long-shadow-of-History_Karla-Hoff-11-Oct.pdf

https://www.ipsp.org/download/chapter-13 communications

https://www.academia.edu/37311829/Chapter_20_Belonging_Pp_779_812_in_Rethinking_Society_for_the_21st_Century_Report_of_the_International_Panel_on_Social_Progress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg8mu2-mJj4

The multiple directions of social progress https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/161102602.pdf EO Wright et al

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