RSA Conversations

How Change Happens

Episode Summary

Three of the world's leading thinkers give their take on how big political and societal change happens. With Doris Kearns Goodwin, Cass Sunstein & Roberto Unger.

Episode Notes

Insights from three of the world's leading thinkers on how political and societal change happens: presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, 'Nudge' author Cass Sunstein, and philosopher Roberto Unger. Plus, the story of how a bar fight in the House of Commons may have inadvertently changed the course of British political history…

Presented by Matthew Taylor.

Featuring:

• Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and America’s pre-eminent presidential historian. Author of Leadership: Lessons from the Presidents from Turbulent Times.
• Cass Sunstein, co-author of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, on the use of behavioural economics in shaping social policy, author of How Change Happens, and Robert Walmsley Professor at Harvard.
• Roberto Mangabeira Unger, philosopher and author of The Knowledge Economy.

Produced by James Shield.

Brought to you by the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce).