Ebook: The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State
Author: Yascha Mounk
- Tags: Responsibility -- Political aspects, Responsibility -- Social aspects, Autarchy, Welfare state, Welfare economics, Wohlfahrtsstaat, Verantwortung, Ethik
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Language: English
- epub
A novel focus on "personal responsibility" has transformed political thought and public policy in America and Europe. Since the 1970s, responsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to suggest an obligation to be self-sufficient. This narrow conception of responsibility has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing Read more...