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  • What is Intergenerational Justice?

    by Axel Gosseries ...
    Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does “justice” mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexist at some point, and between generations that will never overlap?In this book, Axel Gosseries provides a forensic examination of these issues, comparing and analyzing various views about what we owe our ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Ageing without Ageism?

    Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals

    Edited by Greg Bognar, Axel Gosseries ...
    Ageing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy. With contributions from 21 authors the ... Read more

    $92.29 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Institutions For Future Generations

    Edited by Axel Gosseries, Iñigo González-Ricoy ...
    In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice. It should also press us to provide institutional design proposals to change the decision-making world that surrounds us. This book provides an exhaustive overview of the most important institutional proposals as well as a systematic and ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Arguing about justice

    Essays for Philippe Van Parijs

    Edited by Axel Gosseries, Philippe Vanderborght ...
    Series series Hors collections
    This book brings together fifty of today’s finest thinkers. They were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs’s sixtieth birthday. Rather than restricting themselves to comments on his numerous writings, the authors engage with the topics on which he has focused his ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    Ageing without Ageism?

    Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals

    by Greg Bognar, Axel Gosseries ...
    Narrated by Ulf Bjorklund ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 28 min

    Ageing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy.With contributions from twenty-one authors, the ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Professionalism

    The Third Logic

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    $27.99 CAD

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