Bringing reality to the dream - the myth of decline
Paul Flatters and Charlotte Cornish
Argues that the pessimistic view of the future prevalent in many current academic and sociological books is mistaken.
Bringing reality to the dream the myth of decline
Charlotte
Cornish & Paul Flatters
The Future Foundation
Introduction The myth of decline
There is a perception of
decline and malign nostalgia today which overlays much
intellectual comment about changes in
society and in markets. In the
US
, for
example, a wave of scholarship has
claimed that misery and isolation are on the rise.
Robert Putnam, with his book Bowling
Alone, contends that there has been acollapse of honesty and trust - a
collapse so...