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One of the world's most influential economists sets out the basis for a new social contract fit for the 21st centuryThis landmark study by Minouche Shafik, Director of the LSE, draws on evidence from
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Five leading moral philosophers assess various aspects of T.M. Scanlon’s moral theory as laid out in his seminal work, What We Owe to Each Other.An assessment of T.M. Scanlon’s seminal wor
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What Do We Owe Each Other? includes essays by some of the finest social and political policy researchers in the United States. They address critical issues in contemporary American society. These rang
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This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon's contractua
