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Compulsory Insurance without Paternalism

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  • BOU-HABIB, PAUL

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This article examines how a just society must address the needs of its imprudent members. I defend compulsory insurance as an answer to this question. It has been assumed that compulsory insurance can only be justified on paternalistic grounds. I argue that this assumption is incorrect, and defend non-paternalistic compulsory insurance (NPCI). To display the merits of NPCI, I identify a trilemma that arises for views about how to address the needs of the imprudent, including libertarian and so-called ‘luck-egalitarian’ views. I then suggest that NPCI enables us to escape the trilemma.

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  • Bou-Habib, Paul, 2006. "Compulsory Insurance without Paternalism," Utilitas, Cambridge University Press, vol. 18(3), pages 243-263, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:utilit:v:18:y:2006:i:03:p:243-263_00
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    1. Damian Bäumlisberger, 2021. "A Nozickian Case for Compulsory Employment Injury Insurance: The Example of Sweatshops," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 173(1), pages 13-27, September.
    2. Malwina Lemkowska, 2018. "Environmental Liability Directive call for development of financial instruments: the issue of compulsory insurance," Ekonomia i Prawo, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika, vol. 17(4), pages 383-403, December.
    3. Paul Bou-Habib, 2013. "Parental subsidies: The argument from insurance," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 12(2), pages 197-216, May.
    4. Jens Damgaard Thaysen & Andreas Albertsen, 2017. "When bad things happen to good people," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 16(1), pages 93-112, February.

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