Is the welfare state justified? /

In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He examines how major welfare institut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shapiro, Daniel, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Welfare state.
Free enterprise.
État providence.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
Free enterprise
Welfare state
Liberalismus
Sozialstaat
Philosophie
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Justification in political philosophy
  • Internal versus external arguments
  • Clarifying the institutional alternatives
  • Coming attractions
  • Central perspectives in political philosophy
  • Justice, equality, and fairness
  • Basic rights, liberty and well-being
  • Community and solidarity
  • Public justification and epistemic accessibility
  • Health insurance, part I
  • The topic's importance
  • The institutional alternatives
  • Egalitarianism and NHI
  • Risks and choices : egalitarian reasons for MHI
  • Rationing, visibility, and egalitarian outcomes : why market allocation is better
  • Why the priority view agrees with the egalitarian support of MHI
  • Health insurance, part II
  • Basic rights and the right to health care
  • The content of the right
  • The grounds of the right to health care
  • Health care and communitarianism
  • Public justification, information, and rationing
  • Conclusion : the reasons for MHI's superiority
  • Old-age or retirement pensions
  • The institutional alternatives
  • Egalitarianism, fairness, and retirement pensions
  • Positive rights and security
  • Community, solidarity, and pension systems
  • Public justification, epistemic accessibility, and the superiority of private pension
  • Conclusion
  • Welfare or means-tested benefits, part I
  • Introduction
  • Different kinds of state welfare
  • Nongovernmental aid
  • Egalitarianism and welfare-state redistribution
  • Why prioritarianism agrees with egalitarianism about welfare policy
  • Will private charity be enough?
  • Welfare or means-tested benefits, part II
  • The right to welfare
  • Communitarianism and welfare
  • Public justification, epistemic accessibility, and welfare
  • Conclusion : the uncertain choice between state and private conditional aid
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • The problems with SS and the transition problem
  • The Cato plan
  • The Brookings plan
  • Comparing the two plans
  • Where things stand.

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