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The generational welfare contract : justice, institutions and outcomes / Simon Birnbaum [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birnbaum, Simon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare.
- Aging--Economic aspects.
- Aging.
- Aging--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages) illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking book brings together perspectives from political philosophy and comparative social policy to discuss generational justice. Contributing new insights about the preconditions for designing sustainable, inclusive policies for all of society, the authors expose the possibilities of supporting egalitarian principles in an aging society through balanced generational welfare contracts.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Three dimensions of generational justice
- The generational welfare contract
- Profiling the generational welfare contract
- Contracts against poverty
- Contracts for life satisfaction and happiness
- Contracts for trust
- Contracts for or against employment?
- Politics of generational welfare contracts
- The generational welfare contract on the agenda.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783471034
- 1783471034
- OCLC:
- 1001434856
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783471034
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