How to Pool Risks Across Generations
The Case for Collective Pensions
$174.39
- Hardcover
118 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2023
Summary
How to Pool Risks across Generations
This book makes the case for the collective provision of pensions, on fair terms of social cooperation. Through the insurance of a mutual association which extends across society and over multiple generations, we share one another’s fates by pooling risks across both space and time. Resources are transferred, not simply between different people, but also within the possible future lives of each person: from one’s more fortunate to one’s less fort…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198885962 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198885962 |
| 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 |
| Series: | Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
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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