The Pandemic Within – Policy Making for a Better W orld Wagenaar Hardback

The Pandemic WithinPolicy Making for a Better World\nAuthor(s): Hendrik Wagenaar, Barbara Prainsack\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781447362227, 978-1447362227\nSynopsis\nCOVID-19 has exposed defects in our current politicaleconomic order: extreme wealth inequality, an ideology-driven government, a greedy corporate sector, a precarious labour force and a looming climate catastrophe. \n\nThis accessible book offers a unique blend of moral imagination and socialpolitical analysis to overcome these defects. It focuses on two characteristics of contemporary societies hegemony and complexity that have inhibited our ability to imagine, and take seriously, better practices and institutions.\n\nConsidering housing, work, governance, finance, climate change and more, this book presents feasible and pragmatic solutions which are informed by a comprehensive vision of a flourishing, sustainable and richly democratic soci.