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The Age of Responsibility : luck, choice, and the welfare state /
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...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2017.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : [2017] |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Age of Responsibility
- The origins of the Age of Responsibility
- The welfare state in the Age of Responsibility
- The denial of responsibility
- Reasons to value responsibility
- A positive conception of responsibility
- Conclusion: Beyond the Age of Responsibility.