About this episode
Rob Hopkins interviews Kate Pickett about her new book 'The Good Society' and its vision for a more equal future.
Kate Pickett was co-author of the seminal 'The Spirit Level', and she just published her new book 'The Good Society: and how we make it'. 'The Good Society' is an utterly brilliant and compelling vision of what a more equal future fundamentally rooted in care would look like. I can't recommend it highly enough. It draws on a wide array of empirical evidence to bring alive what such a future would be like. It was a huge honour to sit down with Kate to explore some of the themes in the book and where they overlap with the need to boost and build our radical imagination(s). I hope you love this conversation, do let me know what you think.
People in this episode
Host: Rob Hopkins
Guest: Kate Pickett
Topics covered
- equality
- care
- radical imagination
- empirical evidence
- future vision
Keywords
- Kate Pickett
- The Good Society
- equality
- radical imagination
- The Spirit Level
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Spirit Level, The Good Society: and how we make it
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