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As Rawls put it, “Lacking a sense of longterm security and the opportunity for meaningful work and occupation is not only destructive of citizens’ self-respect but of their sense that they are members of society and not simply caught in it.”
Daniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
When we talk about justice today, we almost always find ourselves talking about rights we believe are entrenched in nature and have been enshrined in our founding documents. This language reflects a liberal conception of human action and interaction, casting us as rational agents who reach agreements with one another through calculation and
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Roberta Jakab • 4 cards
Depuis quelques années, pour schématiser, la protection sociale est donc influencée par deux mouvements. Le premier, juridique, favorise unilatéralement l’accroissement de la part marchande de cette protection sociale (prestations et services), sans faire de vraie place à une part d’économie dite « sociale et solidaire » [Barbier, 2017b]. Ceci est
... See moreJean-Claude Barbier, Michaël Zemmour, • Le système français de protection sociale (French Edition)
États lourds vs États minimalistes Si la thèse que les États vont devoir diminuer leur taille pour rester pertinents au XXIe siècle est juste, ce sont les politiques qui iront dans ce sens qui auront les meilleurs résultats pour l’économie et le bien-être des populations à terme. Cela veut dire que les partis politiques qui vont promettre une
... See moreOlivier Roland • Tout Le Monde N'aura Pas La Chance De Quitter Son Pays
While claiming to foster small business and manufacturing, reactionary neoliberalism’s true economic project centered on bolstering finance, military production, and extractive energy, all to the principal benefit of the global 1 percent. What was supposed to render that palatable for the base it sought to assemble was an exclusionary vision of a
... See moreNancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
Each of these developments is consistent with principles of liberality like pluralism, tolerance and generosity, and yet none of them are reflected in contemporary liberalism.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
think the problem with market-driven globalization is simply a matter of distributive justice;
Michael J. Sandel • The Tyranny of Merit
fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity