The online talk will be a three component interaction - first part with faculty anchors, second part with a student panel and the third part for Q&A from public at large
22 February, 2021, Bengaluru: The Centre for Public Policy at IIM Bangalore will host a talk by Professor Michael Sandel, Harvard University, followed by discussion, on his new book, ‘The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of Common Good?’, on March 04 (Thursday), 2021, from 07.00 pm to 08.15 pm. The talk will be held online. The book is themed on ethics and diversity.
It will be a three component interaction - first part with faculty anchors, second part with a student panel and the third part for Q&A from public at large.
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The students of the institute will have an opportunity to read the book prior to the discussion as the books will be distributed to the first-year students of the two-year fulltime MBA programme - Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP). This would enrich the discussion and expose the students more deeply to the issues.
About the book: These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest.
Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the polarized politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success - more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.
About the author: Prof. Michael J. Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His books ‘What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets’, and ‘Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?’ were international bestsellers and have been translated into 27 languages. Sandel's legendary course 'Justice' was the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on television and has been viewed by tens of millions of people. His BBC series 'The Global Philosopher' explores the philosophical ideas lying behind the headlines with participants from around the world.
Dr. Sandel has been a Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne, delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford, the Reith Lectures for the BBC, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His lecture tours have taken him across five continents and packed such venues as St. Paul's Cathedral (London), the Sydney Opera House (Australia), and an outdoor stadium in Seoul (S. Korea), where 14,000 people came to hear him speak.
The online talk will be a three component interaction - first part with faculty anchors, second part with a student panel and the third part for Q&A from public at large
22 February, 2021, Bengaluru: The Centre for Public Policy at IIM Bangalore will host a talk by Professor Michael Sandel, Harvard University, followed by discussion, on his new book, ‘The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of Common Good?’, on March 04 (Thursday), 2021, from 07.00 pm to 08.15 pm. The talk will be held online. The book is themed on ethics and diversity.
It will be a three component interaction - first part with faculty anchors, second part with a student panel and the third part for Q&A from public at large.
Click here to register.
Click here for livestream
The students of the institute will have an opportunity to read the book prior to the discussion as the books will be distributed to the first-year students of the two-year fulltime MBA programme - Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP). This would enrich the discussion and expose the students more deeply to the issues.
About the book: These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest.
Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the polarized politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success - more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.
About the author: Prof. Michael J. Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His books ‘What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets’, and ‘Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?’ were international bestsellers and have been translated into 27 languages. Sandel's legendary course 'Justice' was the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on television and has been viewed by tens of millions of people. His BBC series 'The Global Philosopher' explores the philosophical ideas lying behind the headlines with participants from around the world.
Dr. Sandel has been a Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne, delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford, the Reith Lectures for the BBC, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His lecture tours have taken him across five continents and packed such venues as St. Paul's Cathedral (London), the Sydney Opera House (Australia), and an outdoor stadium in Seoul (S. Korea), where 14,000 people came to hear him speak.