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Equality, risk and responsibility : Dworkin on the insurance market
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The concept of risk occupies centre-stage in debates about individual and social responsibilities and, within a broadly neo-liberal regime, the paradigmatic form of risk management is insurance.Abstract:
The concept of risk occupies centre-stage in debates about individual and social responsibilities and, within a broadly neo-liberal regime, the paradigmatic form of risk management is insurance. Nevertheless analysis of these recent shifts in welfare politics appears curiously disconnected from dominant trends of normative political theorizing. The rise of ‘insurance as government’ and ‘risk management as responsibility and opportunity’ has not obviously been addressed even by prominent liberal political theorists. Similarly the analysts of neo-liberalism have devoted little attention to tracing these concepts through the literature on political theory. This article seeks to remedy this disconnection, by showing how Ronald Dworkin – perhaps the foremost liberal theorist writing today – offers us an account of equality which foregrounds the apparatus of insurance, and represents the management of risk within the welfare system as both an opportunity and a responsibility. Furthermore, his account inherits m...read more
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On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice
TL;DR: In this article, the Tanner Lecture of 1979 called "Equality of What?" Amartya Sen asked what aspects of a person's condition should count in a fundamental way for egalitarians, and not merely as cause of or evidence of or proxy for what they regard as fundamental.
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Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality
TL;DR: Equality is the endangered species of political ideas: even left-of-centre politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension as discussed by the authors.
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Equality and equal opportunity for welfare
TL;DR: The authors argued that the idea of equal opportunity for welfare is the best interpretation of the ideal of distributive equality and argued that some goods are legitimately available for distribution in this fashion, hence that the entitlements and deserts of individuals do not predetermine the proper ownership of all resources.
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Risk and Responsibility
TL;DR: The notion of the precautionary principle was first proposed in The Modern Law Review [Vol. 7, No. 1, No 2] as discussed by the authors, and it has been applied to a wide range of areas of law, insurance, and politics.
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Principles of Social Justice
TL;DR: The principles of desert, need, and equality as discussed by the authors are the three primary components in Miller's scheme, which are the principles of need, need and equality, and the authors of this book use empirical research to demonstrate the central role played by these principles in popular conceptions of justice.