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Is the Welfare State Justified?

Is the Welfare State Justified? Hard cover - 2007

by Daniel Shapiro

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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 in
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  • Title Is the Welfare State Justified?
  • Author Daniel Shapiro
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Edition 1ed
  • Condition New
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2007-07-09
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780521860659_pod
  • ISBN 9780521860659 / 0521860652
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.15 x 6.27 x 1.01 in (23.24 x 15.93 x 2.57 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Welfare state, Free enterprise
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006029240
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.126

Summary

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 institutions, such as government-financed and -administered retirement pensions, national health insurance, and programs for the needy, actually work. Comparing them to compulsory private insurance and private charities, Shapiro argues that the dominant perspectives in political philosophy mistakenly think that their principles support the welfare state. Instead, egalitarians, positive rights theorists, communitarians, and liberals have misunderstood the implications of their own principles, which in fact support more market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than they may realize. Shapiro's book is unique in its combination of political philosophy with social science. Its focus is not limited to any particular country; rather it examines welfare states in affluent democracies and their market alternatives.