Lo que nos debemos unos a otros

The social contract shapes everything: our political institutions, our juridical-legal systems and our material conditions, but also the organization of the family and the community, our well-being, our relationships and our life prospects. Today, however, that social contract is suffering a serious and widespread deterioration. Today's rapid changes in technology, demographics, and climate will reshape our world in ways that many of us have yet to see. In this seminal study, Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics, draws on data and evidence collected from around the world to identify the key principles that all societies will need to adopt to meet the challenges of the coming century, with profound implications. regarding gender equality, education, health care, the role of private enterprise and the future of work. How should risks and resources be shared in a society, and how should individual and collective responsibility be balanced? Brilliantly lucid and easy to read, What We Owe One Another offers new answers to these age-old questions and prepares the reader to understand and play his or her part in the urgent and necessary transformation that awaits us.