29th October 2011 | By Simon Duffy
Modern economic and social theory has failed to capture this important dimension of citizenship.
We need to find ways for all of us to act together as citizens on the truth in Winston Churchill's statement: "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Mike Green in Citizenship and Person-Centred Work
Philosophical theories like utilitarianism and liberalism and the accounts of rationality used by modern economics are badly distorted by their inability to understand the need to give, the need to contribute and the reality of obligations.