Table of Contents

Part I. Taking Responsibility David Schmidtz; 1. Preface; 2. The tide of wealth; 3. Why isn't everyone destitute?; 4. Responsibility and community; 5. Mutual aid; 6. But is it just?; Part II. Social Welfare as a Collective Social Responsibility Robert E. Goodin; 7. The policy context; 8. Some keywords in context; 9. Collective responsibility; 10. The classic case for collectivization restated; 11. The morality of incentives and deterrence; 12. The point of politics.

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Schmidtz and Goodin debate the ethical merits of individual versus collective responsibility for welfare.

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' … clear and accessible, and show a remarkable mastery of the empirical literature.' Political Studies