How to Pool Risks Across Generations
the case for collective pensions
$166.70
- Hardcover
118 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2023
Summary
Pooling Our Futures: A New Vision for Intergenerational Risk Sharing
How to Pool Risks across Generations champions the idea of collective pension systems, built on principles of fairness and social cooperation. By forming a mutual association that spans society and time, we can share our collective destiny, pooling risks across both present and future generations. This approach facilitates the transfer of resources, not just between individuals, but within each person’s life, provi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198885962 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198885962 |
| Series: | Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics |
| Author: | Prof Michael Otsuka, Michael Otsuka |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 118 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 223mm x 145mm x 14mm |
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How to Pool Risks across Generations challenges us to reimagine how we can bring philosophy to bear on important, real-world issues that affect our lives. Otsuka masterfully brings together these issues. * Ezekiel Vergara, Journal of Applied Philosophy *
About The Author
Prof Michael Otsuka
Michael Otsuka is a Professor of Philosophy and a Core Scholar in the Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He has also taught at the London School of Economics, University College London, and UCLA. He obtained a BA in Political Science from Yale and a B.Phil in Philosophy and D.Phil in Politics from Oxford, the latter under the supervision of G. A. Cohen. He is the author of Libertarianism without Inequality (OUP2003). In 2021-22, he served as a union negotiator on behalf of the 200,000 active members of the UK-wide Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
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