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Is the welfare state justified?

By Daniel Shapiro

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780521860659, 0521860652, 0521677939, 9780521677936
Open Library ID
OL22762642M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1871200 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
337\337
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

This is a marvelous, unusual book. It's one of the few attempts in political philosophy that go beyond examining what principles of justice require, by investigating whether contemporary institutions designed to produce those outcomes actually do better than realistic alternatives. I suspect it will have a large audience not only among normative political theorists, who will find stimulating its challenges to welfare state institutions they have taken for granted, but among policy analysts and public-administration specialists with a reflective bent. It's a fresh and welcome approach to political theory that could prompt a long-overdue movement to bring theory out of the clouds.

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