The public good
Subtitle: knowledge as the foundation for a democratic society.
Contributors: American Academy of Arts and Sciences.; American Philosophical Society.; Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.
Publisher: American Academy of Arts and Sciences]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Common good -- Congresses.; Public interest -- United States -- Congresses.; Knowledge, Theory of -- Congresses.; Democracy -- Congresses.; United States -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: On April 27-29, 2007, in Washington, DC, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society held a historical joint meeting: a celebration of Knowledge as the Foundation for a Democratic Society. Members of the National Academies (the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine) joined the American Academy and the Philosophical Society for this two-and-a-half-day meeting. The panel discussions and keynote addresses focused on major issues of the day: The Independence of the Courts; Religion and the Enlightenment; Media and Society; The United States and the Global Economy; Science, Health, and an Aging Society; and Energy Choices and Global Warming.
Notes: Proceedings of the joint meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society held on Apr. 27-29, 2007, in Washington, D.C.

"A project of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands in partnership with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg -- Keynote address.; title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg -- Keynote address. -- Don Michael Randel -- Saturday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Richard S. Dunn; title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg -- Keynote address. -- Don Michael Randel -- Saturday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Richard S. Dunn -- Linda Greenhouse, Sandra Day O'Connor, Judith S. Kaye, Charles G. Geyh, Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC; title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg -- Keynote address. -- Don Michael Randel -- Saturday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Richard S. Dunn -- Linda Greenhouse, Sandra Day O'Connor, Judith S. Kaye, Charles G. Geyh, Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC -- Martin E. Marty, Joyce Appleby, Mark A. Noll, James Carroll; title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg -- Keynote address. -- Don Michael Randel -- Saturday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Richard S. Dunn -- Linda Greenhouse, Sandra Day O'Connor, Judith S. Kaye, Charles G. Geyh, Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC -- Martin E. Marty, Joyce Appleby, Mark A. Noll, James Carroll -- John S. Reed, Robert M. Solow, Pedro Aspe, Edward P. Lazear, Janet Yellen; title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg -- Keynote address. -- Don Michael Randel -- Saturday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Richard S. Dunn -- Linda Greenhouse, Sandra Day O'Connor, Judith S. Kaye, Charles G. Geyh, Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC -- Martin E. Marty, Joyce Appleby, Mark A. Noll, James Carroll -- John S. Reed, Robert M. Solow, Pedro Aspe, Edward P. Lazear, Janet Yellen -- Sharon Rockefeller, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Tom Brokaw, Gwen Ifill -- Saturday evening program. -- Welcome / -- Arlin Adams; title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg -- Keynote address. -- Don Michael Randel -- Saturday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Richard S. Dunn -- Linda Greenhouse, Sandra Day O'Connor, Judith S. Kaye, Charles G. Geyh, Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC -- Martin E. Marty, Joyce Appleby, Mark A. Noll, James Carroll -- John S. Reed, Robert M. Solow, Pedro Aspe, Edward P. Lazear, Janet Yellen -- Sharon Rockefeller, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Tom Brokaw, Gwen Ifill -- Saturday evening program. -- Welcome / -- Arlin Adams -- Introduction / -- Gerald Early -- Keynote address.; title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg -- Keynote address. -- Don Michael Randel -- Saturday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Richard S. Dunn -- Linda Greenhouse, Sandra Day O'Connor, Judith S. Kaye, Charles G. Geyh, Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC -- Martin E. Marty, Joyce Appleby, Mark A. Noll, James Carroll -- John S. Reed, Robert M. Solow, Pedro Aspe, Edward P. Lazear, Janet Yellen -- Sharon Rockefeller, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Tom Brokaw, Gwen Ifill -- Saturday evening program. -- Welcome / -- Arlin Adams -- Introduction / -- Gerald Early -- Keynote address. -- E.L. Doctorow -- Readings / -- Rosanna Warren; title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg -- Keynote address. -- Don Michael Randel -- Saturday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Richard S. Dunn -- Linda Greenhouse, Sandra Day O'Connor, Judith S. Kaye, Charles G. Geyh, Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC -- Martin E. Marty, Joyce Appleby, Mark A. Noll, James Carroll -- John S. Reed, Robert M. Solow, Pedro Aspe, Edward P. Lazear, Janet Yellen -- Sharon Rockefeller, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Tom Brokaw, Gwen Ifill -- Saturday evening program. -- Welcome / -- Arlin Adams -- Introduction / -- Gerald Early -- Keynote address. -- E.L. Doctorow -- Readings / -- Rosanna Warren -- Sunday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Peter Nicholas; title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg -- Keynote address. -- Don Michael Randel -- Saturday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Richard S. Dunn -- Linda Greenhouse, Sandra Day O'Connor, Judith S. Kaye, Charles G. Geyh, Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC -- Martin E. Marty, Joyce Appleby, Mark A. Noll, James Carroll -- John S. Reed, Robert M. Solow, Pedro Aspe, Edward P. Lazear, Janet Yellen -- Sharon Rockefeller, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Tom Brokaw, Gwen Ifill -- Saturday evening program. -- Welcome / -- Arlin Adams -- Introduction / -- Gerald Early -- Keynote address. -- E.L. Doctorow -- Readings / -- Rosanna Warren -- Sunday panel discussions. -- Introduction / -- Peter Nicholas -- Harvey V. Fineberg, John Bongaarts, Lisa Berkman, John W. Rowe; title: Leslie Berlowitz, Mary Maples Dunn, Baruch S. Blumberg, Emilio Bizzi, Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg-- Keynote address.-- Don Michael Randel-- Saturday panel discussions.-- Introduction /-- Richard S. Dunn-- Linda Greenhouse, Sandra Day O'Connor, Judith S. Kaye, Charles G. Geyh, Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC-- Martin E. Marty, Joyce Appleby, Mark A. Noll, James Carroll-- John S. Reed, Robert M. Solow, Pedro Aspe, Edward P. Lazear, Janet Yellen-- Sharon Rockefeller, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Tom Brokaw, Gwen Ifill-- Saturday evening program.-- Welcome /-- Arlin Adams-- Introduction /-- Gerald Early-- Keynote address.-- E.L. Doctorow-- Readings /-- Rosanna Warren-- Sunday panel discussions.-- Introduction /-- Peter Nicholas-- Harvey V. Fineberg, John Bongaarts, Lisa Berkman, John W. Rowe-- Richard A. Meserve, Ralph J. Cicerone, Charles O. Holliday, Jr.