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Intergenerational Exploitation

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Nicola Mulkeen

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Abstract

Earlier generations can jeopardise the opportunities, resources and well-being of their successors. Indeed, there is a growing unease with earlier generations leaving large-scale public debts to be paid by younger generations, and many worry that our policies and institutions are being shaped to advantage the interests of older generations at the expense of the young. While much theoretical (and empirical) literature now exists on the many ways in which earlier generations can unjustly jeopardise the well-being of their successors, very little has appeared on how the former’s decisions can generate specifically exploitative relationships. This is all the more surprising, in light of the fact that very large theoretical literatures exist on both intergenerational justice and exploitation. The aim of the article is to bring these two literatures into long overdue contact with one another and analyse an under-researched and yet fundamental problem – intergenerational exploitation. The article answers two questions. (1) What exactly is intergenerational exploitation? (2) What makes this type of exploitation wrong?

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Author(s): Mulkeen N

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Political Studies

Year: 2023

Volume: 71

Issue: 3

Pages: 756-775

Print publication date: 01/08/2023

Online publication date: 26/08/2023

Acceptance date: 01/09/2021

Date deposited: 20/12/2024

ISSN (print): 0032-3217

ISSN (electronic): 1467-9248

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217211040210

DOI: 10.1177/00323217211040210

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