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Are Asia's Demographic Dividends Disappearing? / Mason, Andrew

Mason, Andrew	Journal Article
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Countries in Asia and around the world are experiencing two demographic trends of great importance to their economies. Working-age populations are growing more slowly and the share of population at older ages is increasing more rapidly. The results presented in this article address the economic implications of these changes and strategies for responding. Responding effectively requires that institutions and policies are reformed to ensure that older adults can contribute more to society than was the case for previous generations. Effective investment in human capital can ensure that smaller cohorts of working-age adults can produce as much or more than larger cohorts of working-age adults did in the past. Economic resources can be marshalled by seniors and those approaching retirement to provide for their own economic security and to support stronger economic growth.

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Rawlsian theory and the circumstances of politics / Mason, Andrew

Mason, Andrew	Journal Article
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2010.

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Can Rawlsian theory provide us with an adequate response to the practical question of how we should proceed in the face of widespread and intractable disagreement over matters of justice? Recent criticism of ideal theorizing might make us wonder whether this question highlights another way in which ideal theory can be too far removed from our non-ideal circumstances to provide any practical guidance. Further reflection on it does not show that ideal theory is redundant, but it does indicate that there is a need for a nonideal theory that does not consist simply in an account of how to apply the principles which are yielded by ideal theory to non-ideal circumstances in the light of what is feasible and an assessment of the costs of implementation. Indeed any non-ideal theory that can adequately address this question will have to be partially autonomous, drawing on a notion of legitimacy that is rather different to the one which lies at the heart of Rawlsian ideal theory.

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Justice ; Legitimacy ; Rawls ; Disagreement

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