Generations And the Challenge of Justice |
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| Author:
| Lee, Daniel Sheldon |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7618-0302-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1996 |
| Publisher: | University Press of America, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $137.95 |
Book Description:
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Some of the more pressing matters confronting us--as individuals, as communities and as a nation--involve fundamental issues of intergenerational justice. These include caring for aged parents, balancing the rights and well-being of our children with our own rights and well-being, financing Social Security, allocating the costs of our federal budget deficits and our mushrooming national debt, and imposing delayed environmental costs on future generations. Generations develops a theory...
More DescriptionSome of the more pressing matters confronting us--as individuals, as communities and as a nation--involve fundamental issues of intergenerational justice. These include caring for aged parents, balancing the rights and well-being of our children with our own rights and well-being, financing Social Security, allocating the costs of our federal budget deficits and our mushrooming national debt, and imposing delayed environmental costs on future generations. Generations develops a theory of intergenerational justice and applies it to these five sets of issues.