In fact, the book makes the case that we'd all be lost without settling--and that even to strive, one must first settle ..."--Book jacket flap. "This is a profound book by one of our very best social philosophers.

Reasons for Welfare, in contrast, offers a defense of the minimal welfare state substantially independent of any such broader commitments, and at the same time better able to withstand challenges from the New Right's moralistic political ...

Others see genuine philosophical issues in public affairs but try to resolve them through fanciful examples. Both, argues Robert E. Goodin, are wrong.

Robert E. Goodin, a philosopher with many books on political theory, public policy and applied ethics to his credit, defends utilitarianism against its critics and shows how it can be applied most effectively over a wide range of public ...

That is the focus of this book, in which Robert Goodin identifies several fundamental mechanisms of structural injustice: social position, networks, language, social expectations and norms, reputation, and organization.

In Innovating Democracy, Robert Goodin surveys these new deliberative mechanisms, asking how they work and what we can properly expect of them. He concludes we should treat talk as discovery procedure rather than as a decision procedure.

But what is consent, and how does it work? How can consent be conferred, invoked and revoked? Goodin offers a comprehensive philosophical account of the social practice of consent.

Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them in turn. This new book shows that 'greens' deserve to be taken more seriously than that. This is the first full-length philosophical discussion of the green political programme.

The authors of this book have developed a novel way to measure 'discretionary time': time which is free to spend as one pleases.

This book traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state.