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Steps towards Maturing — from Compulsion to Consent

In: Welfare and Values

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  • Peter Askonas

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Several contributors to this book have argued that the ‘gap’ is a symptom of a fundamental imbalance in our economic and political structures. Only radical reordering will provide the conditions for dealing with that symptom effectively. How such reordering could be made to happen in the face of countervailing domestic and global pressures is left an open question. History demonstrates that radical change is usually not a comfortable process. Nor is it the product of balanced deliberations. More probably, major upheavals will follow when justice and fairness become ostensibly distorted or when economic well-being is imbalanced to an intolerable degree. For example, the continuing shift of employment, prosperity and power from West to East could result in such an event. And we could go on to speculate whether, in consequence, this or some other calamity might impose mutual support as essential for tolerable survival — and thereby resolve unexpectedly the issue which this book considers. Will this be the way ahead?

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  • Peter Askonas, 1997. "Steps towards Maturing — from Compulsion to Consent," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter Askonas & Stephen F. Frowen (ed.), Welfare and Values, chapter 18, pages 197-210, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25547-4_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25547-4_19
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