The age of responsibility : luck, choice, and the welfare state /

A novel focus on "personal responsibility" has transformed political thought and public policy in America and Europe. Since the 1970s, responsibility, which once meant the moral duty to help and support others, has come to suggest an obligation to be self-sufficient. This narrow conception...

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Main Author:	Mounk, Yascha, 1982- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017].
Subjects:	Responsibility > Political aspects. Responsibility > Social aspects. Autarchy. Welfare state. Welfare economics.