"What Do We Owe Each Other"? includes essays by some of the
finest social and political policy researchers in the United
States. They address critical issues in contemporary American
society. These range from the making of public opinion, the nature
of the presumed social contract between government and its people,
the special place of corporate governance and institutional
investors with respect to social stability, the search for
educational equality in a world of growing income disparities, the
huge run up in prison populations and the decline of American
citizenship, and not least, the ethical issues of selfless and
selfish motivations with respect to organ transplants, and the sale
of body parts.
Although the volume is clearly focused on the United States of
the past and present, it offers a long view of how social trends
take on distinctive moral characteristics. The opening essay by
Katherine Newman of Princeton University and Elisabeth Jacobs of
Harvard University carefully documents how the political and social
goals of the New Deal era outstripped the public opinion views of
the time. They rise to a special level of analysis on how the
policy processes can be uneven in one era and yet translate into a
general good in later periods. Economic recovery and ideological
dispositions were not in sync during the New Deal. As the
contributors show, such disparities remain true of the American
political process as a whole.
The contributors display a wide diversity of opinion, but the
volume is unified by the belief that ethical concerns play as large
a role in defining American society as do economic interests. The
book should attract the attention of political scientists,
sociologists, economists, and above all, those people interested in
how policy analysis is fused with moral considerations at the start
as well as at the close of decision making as such. "Howard L.
Rosenthal" is a professor of politics at New York University. He is
the author of many journal articles and coauthor, with Alberto
Alesina of "Partisan Politics, Divided Government, and the
Economy," and coauthor with Keith T. Poole of "Ideology and
Congress" (available from Transaction).
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