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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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The ascendance of personal responsibility
- The origins of the Age of Responsibility
- The welfare state in the Age of Responsibility
- The denial of responsibility
- Reasons to value responsibility
- A positive conception of responsibility
- Conclusion: Beyond the Age of Responsibility.