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Progress Studies antecedents
- The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University tried to encourage optimistic thinking about the future through fiction and narrative.
- An applied history movement is needed to help draw lessons from history and apply them to real-world problems.
- In a world with Progress Studies, a new focus on progress belongs to a school of thought that would encourage a decentralized shift in priorities among academics, philanthropists, and funding agencies. This has already happened in climate-science research and the designation of Keynesian economics, which helped economists focus on fiscal policy as a tool for recession fighting.
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Why progress studies are important
- We still need a lot of progress for major challenges. We haven't yet cured all diseases; we don't yet know how to solve climate change; we don't yet understand how best to predict or mitigate natural disasters.
- A lot of progress can also come from...
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Benefiting from an organized effort
The world would benefit from an organized effort from various disciplines to understand:
- How we should identify and train brilliant young people.
- How the most effective small groups exchange and share ideas.
- Which incentiv...
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The goal of Progress Studies
In effect, the goal of Progress Studies is to treat, not merely to understand.
The success of Progress Studies will lie in the following:
- its ability to identify effective progress-increasing interventions
- the extent to which they are adopted by unive...
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