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In today's society, the young and the old compete fiercely for an essential yet scarce resource--public funds for human services. With the rapidly increasing number of people over the age of sixty-five, we face a wide range of new dilemmas, including how to distribute social... Read Full Overview

The rapidly increasing numbers of elderly people in our society have raised some important moral questions: How should we distribute social resources among different age groups? What does justice require from both the young and the old? In this book, Norman Daniels offers the... Read Full Overview