Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. To the well-being of society -- 2. The global market economy -- 3. Promise and peril -- 4. The American response -- 5. The Swedish welfare state -- 6. Social learning -- 7. Lurch and learn -- 8. Applying social learning to the welfare state -- 9. Characteristics of the lurch -- 10. Reciprocity -- Selective bibliography.
The theme of Daniel Yankelovich's Zetterberg Lecture is timely and urgent: how do societies learn? We know that individuals can learn, but can collectivities do likewise? More specifically, how can complex political systems adapt to a changing world?.