What We Owe Each Other

11-03-2021
Author(s): Minouche Shafik
Publication Number: ECES-SB138
Issued in: 2021

Overview*

The social contract shapes everything: our political institutions, legal systems and material conditions, but also the organisation of family and community, our well-being, relationships and life prospects. And yet everywhere, the social contract is failing.
How should society pool risks, share resources and balance individual with collective responsibility? What We Owe Each Other offers new answers to these age-old questions and equips every reader to understand and play their part in the urgent and necessary transformation ahead.