The Age of Responsibility : Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State / Yascha Mounk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mounk, Yascha, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 1 graph, 3 tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Responsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to be equated with an obligation to be self-sufficient.This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key entitlements conditional on good behavior.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: The Ascendance of Personal Responsibility

1. The Origins of the Age of Responsibility

2. The Welfare State in the Age of Responsibility

3. The Denial of Responsibility

4. Reasons to Value Responsibility

5. A Positive Conception of Responsibility

Conclusion: Beyond the Age of Responsibility

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-97825-0

OCLC:

1054872293