Economics, Risk Analysis, Technology Transfer, Social Policy For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr. 1989. Beacon Press, Boston, MA. 481 pages. $24.95

1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-36 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
The Common

Sympathetic Selection: Eugenics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Boddice
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Central Tenet ◽  
The Common ◽  
Francis Galton ◽  
Highly Evolved

Chapter 5 returns to the blueprint for the evolution of sympathy in Darwin’s Descent, picking up at the point where Darwin introduces a paradoxical prediction of degeneration, caused by the same force that inspired social cohesion and moral progress. This chapter analyses the birth of the eugenics movement as a department of statistics, arising directly from a concern for the common good of civilised society – the central tenet of highly evolved sympathy. Unlike most studies of eugenics, this chapter focuses largely on the period before 1900, when the parameters of eugenic thought were being hashed out. It particularly focuses on the problem of degeneration as seen through the eyes of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, who pointed to the need for social-policy interventions in breeding.

scholarly journals Faith-Based Education and SDG4: The Catholic Case

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Giovanni Patriarca ◽  
Diana M. Valentini
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Global Responsibility ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
Vocational Centers

Faith-based education has played a major role worldwide. In its schools, vocational centers, and universities, Catholic education tends to form an integral human person though the holistic synthesis of faith, culture, and life. Such an interrelated commitment highlights a global responsibility for the common good and a sustainable future, sharing the SDG4’s targets and promoting a culture of encounter.

Cooperation and social policy: integrating evidence into practice – Introduction to the Issue

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lazarus
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Real World ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Collective Good ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
Motivational Influences ◽  
The Individual

How can research evidence on cooperation best be exploited to the advantage of social policy? In this issue we bring together behavioural researchers with expertise in cooperation and social policy practitioners to work together on a series of issues in social policy for which the major challenge is for the players involved to cooperate for the common good. In this introductory paper I first explain the nature of cooperation, its potential for the collective good and the obstacles to achieving that potential. After a brief review of behavioural research applications to social policy, I summarise evidence for the many factors that promote cooperation in experimental and real world settings and that might be employed in the policy arena. These factors represent the influence of a small number of motivational influences including reciprocity, fairness, reputation, group identification and social norms. Analysis of the research findings reveals ways in which the real world difficulties in promoting action for the common good might be overcome. Evolutionary behavioural analysis adds additional insights useful for policy development. Beyond the value of the individual contributions the issue as a whole has the potential to uncover new understanding of the relationships between policy problems and their solutions.

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