Description
Book SynopsisPopulation and Political Theory brings together current thinking on issues at the intersection of population policy and political theory. Topics explored include population size, immigration and refugees, intergenerational justice, population characteristics and shaping children, ageing, and caring labour.
Trade Review“This volume will prove to be rewarding reading for all graduate students and scholars in social policy, demography, ethics and political theory who are interested in population issues.” (Social Policy & Administration, 1 February 2013)
“As a result the book is both accessible to the uninitiated and valuable to the initiated. Overall, it represents an excellent resource for political philosophers, population theorists and policy makers.” (Political Studies Review, 10 March 2012)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Population & Political Theory (James S. Fishkin & Robert E. Goodin)
1. Population & Ethics: Expanding the Moral Space (Sissela Bok)
2. Should We Value Population? (John Broome)
3. Regarding Optimum Population (Partha Dasgupta)
4. On Doing the Best for Our Children (Derek Parfit)
5. Shaping Future Children: Parental Rights and Societal Interest (Dan W. Brock)
6. On Future Generations' Future Rights (Axel Grosseries)
7. Justice Between Adjacent Generations: Further Thoughts (Norman Daniels)
8. Generations at War or Sustainable Social Policy in Ageing Societies (Thomas Lindh, Bo Malmberg and Joakim Palme)
9. Dependency, Difference and Global Ethic of Longterm Care (Eva Feder Kittay with Bruce Jennings and Angela Wasunna)
10. Live-in Domestics, Seasonal Workers, and Others Hard to Locate on the Map of Democracy (Joseph H. Carens)
11. Immigrants, Nations and Citizenship (David Miller)
12. Justice in Migration: A Closed Borders Utopia? (Lea Ypi )
13. The Ethics of Refugee Policy (Peter Singer and Renata Singer)
