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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.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part One
- 1: Equality over Time
- 2: Lifespan Prudence
- 3: Relational Equality Between Age Groups
- 4: Treating Young and Old as Equals
- Part Two
- 5: Age, Jobs, and Inequalities
- 6: Basic Income versus Basic Capital: A Temporal Perspective
- 7: Youth-ing Politics: A Defence of Youth Quotas in Parliaments
About the author
Juliana Bidadanure is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Political Science, at Stanford University. She is also the founder and Faculty Director of the Stanford Basic Income Lab. Her interests lie at the intersection of Philosophy and Public Policy. She has been working on how we should conceptualize the value of equality in general, and in particular on inequalities between age groups and generations.
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.
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Issues of justice between age groups (e.g., children, adolescents, young adults, the middle-aged, and the elderly) and justice between birth cohorts (the group of individuals born around a certain time as compared to successive groups born at later times) are complex and difficult and their interaction, even more so. This nexus of problematic issues has met its match in Juliana Bidadanure's brilliant new book. Her strategy of focusing on the injustices in society's treatment of young adults pays off in genuinely original and deep analytical insights concerning what is required to forge a society in which we relate to all as equals and stand to one another as equals—including the young.
