What does society owe each of us? And what do we owe in return?

Our answer to these inescapable questions – known as the social contract – shapes our politics, economic systems and every stage of life, from raising children and going to school to finding work and growing old. Yet today, many believe that this contract is not working for them.

In What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract, leading economist and Director of the LSE, Minouche Shafik, examines societies across the world and demonstrates that the urgent challenges of technology, demography and climate require a major shift in priorities – a social contract fit for the 21st century.

Our panel discussed these issues and more at this event in our Fair Society series with the Policy Institute at King’s College London.

Panel

Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics
Diane Coyle, Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge
Daniel Susskind, Fellow in Economics, University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute
Ryan Shorthouse, Director, Bright Blue, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Institute
Bobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute, King’s College London (chair)

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