One of the things that excites me about this paper is the attempt at mapping technical goals onto more tangible policy, including clustering the goals around ministries, making it easier to understand where the transformations need to happen, and doing so through an understanding of how goals affect each other.

I’m sure there’s plenty of criticism to do, given it still operates under capitalism and it could be naïve to imminent environmental catastrophes.

Yet, within the logic of the State and capitalism, this is one of our best bets. In particular, I like that the SDGs have explicit provisions regarding equality of income and institutional inclusion. In that regard, and many others, the SDGs are aiming to build a social democracy.

Anyway, here’s the freely available working paper.

Here’s the gated final paper.