Probable Justice : Risk, Insurance, and the Welfare State

Rachel Z Friedman

ISBN 10: 022673093X / ISBN 13: 9780226730936

Edité par University Of Chicago Press Sep 2020, 2020

A propos de cet article

Neuware - 'The welfare state has today become a political cudgel used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. Despite objections, social insurance-from workers' compensation laws to pension, disability, and unemployment benefits, to healthcare and parental leave policies-defines the modern welfare state and permeates daily life. Any rationale for a system of social insurance has to account for these questions: How do we assess the burden of risk over time How do we decide who and what to cover, and at what cost Probable Justice traces a history of social insurance, from the idea of social accountability through the advanced welfare state of collective responsibility and risk. At the heart of Rachel Z. Friedman's investigation is a study of how social insurance systems employ probability theory to flexibly distribute coverage and measure risk. Friedman reveals that the political genius of probabilistic social insurance is to allow for myriad accommodations of needs, risks, financing, and political aims, and thereby promote liberal social justice'.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Probable Justice : Risk, Insurance, and the Welfare State
• Éditeur: University Of Chicago Press Sep 2020
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 022673093X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226730936
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 230 L x 154 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 230 millimètres de largeur par 154 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 398 grammes

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Synopsis

Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. At the same time, it affects nearly every citizen and permeates daily life—in the form of pension, disability, and unemployment benefits, healthcare and parental leave policies, and more. At the core of that disjunction is the question of how we as a society decide who should get what benefits—and how much we are willing to pay to do so.

Probable Justice​ traces a history of social insurance from the eighteenth century to today, from the earliest ideas of social accountability through the advanced welfare state of collective responsibility and risk. At the heart of Rachel Z. Friedman’s investigation is a study of how probability theory allows social insurance systems to flexibly measure risk and distribute coverage. The political genius of social insurance, Friedman shows, is that it allows for various accommodations of needs, risks, financing, and political aims—and thereby promotes security and fairness for citizens of liberal democracies.

À propos de l?auteur

Rachel Z. Friedman is a member of the Buchmann Faculty of Law and a faculty affiliate of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University.