What institutions and policies are most conducive to human flourishing? The Good Society is a book of diagnoses and prescriptions for the United States and other affluent democratic nations.
1. INTRODUCTION
America is exceptional … and ordinary
2. COMMUNITY
Neighborliness
3. DEMOCRACY
What do Americans want from their government?
4. ECONOMIC EQUALITY
5. ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
6. ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
7. ECONOMIC SECURITY
A decent and rising income floor
8. EDUCATION
K-12 education
9. EMPLOYMENT
Job mobility
Quality of work life
10. ENVIRONMENT
Clean air, water, and land
11. FAMILY
12. FINANCE
An effective and stable financial system
13. FREEDOM
14. GOOD GOVERNMENT
Public insurance and the least well-off
How much public insurance do Americans want?
Is big government bad for the economy?
Is big government bad for freedom, civil society, and happiness?
Good government
15. HAPPINESS
16. HEALTH
Mental health
17. HOUSING
Livable cities
Good neighborhoods
Homeownership
Housing the homeless
18. INCLUSION
Noncollege whites
Disabled
Latinos
Asian Americans
Native Americans
19. KNOWLEDGE
Information
Truth
20. LAW AND ORDER
Law and order
21. OPENNESS AND SUPPORT FOR OTHER PEOPLES
22. PRIVACY
Privacy
23. SAFETY
APPENDIXES
A decent and rising income floor: additional data
College education: additional data
Good government: additional data
Income inequality: additional data
