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How to Pool Risks across Generations 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.
Info autore
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 (OUP 2003). 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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How to Pool Risks across Generations 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.
Testo aggiuntivo
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.
