제목

Intergenerational Equity: Historical Reconstructions

저자

John Macnicol

발행기관

Palgrave Macmillan UK

키워드

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

abstract

Intergenerational equity can be simply defined as the view that public resources should be allocated ‘fairly’ between competing generations. Although intergenerational tensions and conflicts are as old as human history itself, renewed concerns have emerged very recently in the UK against a background of economic recession, massive cuts in public expenditure and something of a change in the political culture. The idea that our current economic woes have in part been caused by ‘over-generous’ redistribution to older people at the expense of the young has become an integral part of prevailing political discourses, popularized by recent books (apocalyptically titled, and of varying degrees of seriousness) (Willetts, 2010; Beckett, 2010; Howker and Malik, 2010), frequently discussed in the media, the focus of a new pressure group (the Intergenerational Foundation) and even taken up by research funding bodies like the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Leverhulme Trust.

주요내용

세대 간 평등은 자원을 어떻게 ‘공평하게’ 나누는 것인가로 정의됨. 노인세대에 ‘너무 관대하게’ 재분배되는 것으로 인한 현대의 경제적인 문제들은 정치, 미디어, 책, 새로운 집단 등을 아우르는 이슈임

ISBN

978-1-349-67080-2, 978-1-137-28317-7

Subject

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sociology of Work , Medical Sociology, Demography, Aging, Sociology, general

Link

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137283177_12