| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Justice Across Ages: Treating Young and Old as Equals -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1: Equality over Time -- 1.1 The Puzzle of Age Discrimination: Is Age Like Gender and Race? -- 1.2 The "Equality Through Time" Debate and Its Implications -- 1.2.1 The "Equality Through Time" Debate -- 1.2.2 Disambiguating the Concept of Generations -- 1.2.3 Implications of the "Equality Through Time" Debate for Generational Issues -- 1.3 Motivating the Complete Lives Approach -- 1.4 Approximate Equality Between Birth Cohorts -- 1.5 Complete Lives Egalitarianism and Age-Group Justice -- 2: Lifespan Prudence -- 2.1 The Features of the Prudential Lifespan Account -- 2.2 The Outcomes of the Prudential Lifespan Account -- 2.2.1 The Lifespan Sufficiency Principle -- 2.2.2 The Lifespan Efficiency Principle -- 2.3 Objections -- 2.3.1 The Longevity Objection -- 2.3.2 The Demographic Objection -- 2.3.3 The Liberal Neutrality Objection -- 2.3.4 The Intersectionality Objection -- 2.4 Conclusions -- 3: Relational Equality Between Age Groups -- 3.1 McKerlie's Simultaneous Segments Egalitarianism -- 3.1.1 Why Isn't Diachronic Fairness Enough? -- 3.1.2 Why does the Simultaneous Segments View Fail? -- 3.2 Relational and Distributive Equality -- 3.3 Relational Equality Between Age Groups -- 3.3.1 Synchronic Relational Equality -- 3.3.2 Relational Equality Between Age Groups -- 3.4 Objections -- 3.4.1 Objection 1: The Relational Explanation Is Not Needed -- There Is a Distributive View that Can Explain Our Intuitions Just A -- 3.4.2 Objection 2: The Relational View Is Vulnerable to the Arbitrariness Objection Too -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4: Treating Young and Old as Equals -- 4.1 Summary -- 4.2 Internal Conflicts -- 4.3 A Final Take on a Few Examples -- 4.4 Treating the Young as Equals: What Does It Mean? |
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4.4.1 Lifespan Sufficiency: Ensuring Young People Have "Enough" -- 4.4.2 Synchronic Relational Equality: Ensuring the Young Are Able to Stand as Equals -- 4.4.3 Lifespan Efficiency: Regulating Diachronic Clustering of Disadvantage -- 4.4.4 Approximate Cohort Equality: Mitigating Scarring Effects -- 4.5 Conclusions -- Part II -- 5: Age, Jobs, and Inequalities -- 5.1 A Special Right to Work for the Young: The Youth Job Guarantee -- 5.2 A Special Duty to Retire for Older Workers: Mandatory Retirement -- 5.3 A Special Duty to Work for the Young: The Youth Guarantee -- 5.4 Labor, the Workplace, and Age Discrimination -- 5.5 Conclusion: Towards an Age-IntegratedWorkplace? -- 6: Basic Income versus Basic Capital: A Temporal Perspective -- 6.1 Which Program Aligns Best with Lifespan Prudence? -- 6.2 Which Policy Promotes Complete Lives Equality Best? -- 6.2.1 Social Inequalities Between Life Courses -- 6.2.2 Inequalities Between Longevity Groups -- 6.2.3 Inequalities Between Birth Cohorts -- 6.3 Which Is Best for Synchronic Relational Equality? -- 6.4 A Concluding Proposal -- 7: Youth-ing Politics: A Defense of Youth Quotas in Parliaments -- 7.1 Substantive Representation -- 7.1.1 Narrowing the Scope of Substantive Representation -- 7.1.2 Preventing the Exclusion of Youth Interests from the Party Packaging of Political Ideas -- 7.1.3 Increasing the Chance of More Vigorous Advocacy on Behalf of the Young -- 7.1.4 Cognitive Diversity and Parliamentary Competence -- 7.1.5 Youth Quotas and Intergenerational Justice -- 7.2 Symbolic Representation -- 7.3 Age or Cohort Quotas -- 7.4 Conclusions -- Index |
| Summary |
Justice Across Ages is a book about how we should respond to inequalities between people at different stages of their lives. It proposes a theory of justice between co-existing generations and considering implications for public policies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed August 19, 2021) |
| Subject |
Intergenerational relations -- Social aspects
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Social justice.
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Social justice
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191834301 |
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0191834300 |
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9780192510631 |
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0192510630 |
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9780192510648 |
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0192510649 |
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