Making Progress

by Anderson, Leigh C.; Looney, Janet W.; Anderson, C Leigh; Brandon, Richard N.; Bretherton, Christopher; Chirot, Daniel; Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly; Cowan, Ruth Schwartz; Cullen, Alison; Daly, Martin; Dobel, J Patrick; Evans, Daniel J.; Gordon, Andrew C.; Gor

• ISBN13: 9780739104910
• ISBN10: 0739104918
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-23
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In this volume, noted scholars in economics, government, education, technology, literature, culture, and religion, among other fields, discuss the meaning and measurement of progress in their areas of specialty.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Foreword	xv
Daniel J. Evans
Introduction	xvii
C. Leigh Anderson
David A. Hennes
Section I---Defining, Measuring, and Implementing Progress	1	(58)
Progress and the Promise of Public Policy	3	(26)
J. Patrick Dobel
C. Leigh Anderson
Two Steps Forward and One Step Back: An Assessment of Progress in the Twentieth Century	29	(14)
Alex Inkeles
Making Progress in Implementation Scholarship: A Survey of the Literature	43	(16)
Janet W. Looney
Section II---The Domains of Progress	59	(350)
Part One: Progress in Ourselves
Introduction	61	(6)
Progress and Evolution	67	(12)
Martin Daly
Margo Wilson
The Meaning of Progress in the New Millennium	79	(10)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Faith and the Future: Religion and the Problem of Progress in the New Millennium	89	(12)
Hubert Locke
Progress in Literature	101	(12)
Charles Johnson
Paradoxical Progress: Medical Advances and Moral Anxiety	113	(12)
Albert R. Jonsen
Young Children: The First Step in Progress	125	(14)
Richard N. Brandon
Progress and Education: Supporting the Realization of Human Aspirations	139	(26)
William Zumeta
Part Two: Progress in Our Relations with Others
Introduction	159	(6)
Achieving Progress in Solving Collective-Action Problems	165	(26)
Elinor Ostrom
Is There Cultural Progress?	191	(28)
Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.
Ethnopolitical Warfare and Massacres: Is There Progress?	219	(20)
Daniel Chirot
Progress and Contentious Politics	239	(8)
Charles Tilly
NGOs, Development, and Human Rights: A Story of Progress and Policy	247	(20)
San C. Ng
Marc Lindenberg
Free Press, Profit Margins, and Democratic Governance: Is There a Fatal Flaw?	267	(30)
Margaret T. Gordon
Part Three: Progress in Our Material and Natural World
Introduction	291	(6)
Progress and the Natural Sciences: Issues and Perspectives	297	(22)
Scott L. Montgomery
Progress: An Economist's View	319	(10)
Robert Heilbroner
Perhaps Progress Really Is Our Most Important Product: A Feminist Contemplates the Twentieth Century	329	(14)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Information Technology and Progress	343	(28)
Andrew C. Gordon
Tom Martin
Toward Eliminating Poverty from the World: Grameen Bank Experience	371	(8)
Muhammad Yunus
Progressing toward Environmental Sustainability	379	(30)
Alison Cullen
Christopher Bretherton
Bibliography	409	(4)
Index	413	(8)
Author Biographies	421