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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James S Fishkin; Robert E Goodin |
ISBN: | 9781444330380 1444330381 |
OCLC Number: | 436030654 |
Description: | x, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Population and Political Theory / Robert E. Goodin / James S. Fishkin -- 1. Population and Ethics: Expanding the Moral Space / Sissela Bok -- 2. Should We Value Population? / John Broome -- 3. Regarding Optimum Population / Partha Dasgupta -- 4. On Doing the Best for Our Children / Derek Parfit -- 5. Shaping Future Children: Parental Rights and Societal Interests / Dan W. Brock -- 6. On Future Generations' Future Rights / Axel Gosseries -- 7. Justice between Adjacent Generations: Further Thoughts / Norman Daniels -- 8. Generations at War or Sustainable Social Policy in Ageing Societies? / Thomas Lindh / Bo Malmberg / Joakim Palme -- 9. Dependency, Difference, and the Global Ethic of Longterrn Care / Bruce Jennings / Eva Feder Kittay / Angela A. Wasunna -- 10. Live-in Domestics, Seasonal Workers, and Others Hard to Locate on the Map of Democracy / Joseph H. Carens -- 11. Immigrants, Nations, and Citizenship / David Miller. Note continued: 12. Justice in Migration: A Closed Borders Utopia? / Lea Ypi -- 13. The Ethics of Refugee Policy / Peter Singer / Renata Singer. |
Series Title: | Philosophy, politics and society, 8. |
Responsibility: | edited by James S. Fishkin and Robert E. Goodin. |
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Population and Political Theory brings together current thinking on issues at the intersection of population policy and political theory. Topics explored include population size, immigration and refugees, intergenerational justice, population characteristics and shaping children, ageing, and caring labour.
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"This volume will prove to be rewarding reading for all graduate students and scholars in social policy, demography, ethics and political theory who are interested in population issues." ( Social Policy & Administration , 1 February 2013) "As a result the book is both accessible to the uninitiated and valuable to the initiated. Overall, it represents an excellent resource for political philosophers, population theorists and policy makers." ( Political Studies Review , 10 March 2012) Read more...
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- ethiek
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