Making Progress

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.

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

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