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Introduction: homo economicus, homo moriturus

In: Allocating Pensions to Younger People

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  • Gregory Ponthiere

    (UCLouvain)

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This short essay defends a reorientation of the welfare state, which takes the form of the construction of a new ‘pillar’ of social protection: a social insurance against the risk of premature death, that is, the risk of a short life. Nowadays, such a social insurance does not exist within modern welfare states. Possible causes for this non-existence include a double invisibility: on the one hand, the invisibility of the victims of premature death, whose interests are quickly forgotten once they have disappeared from the social field; on the other hand, the invisibility of the loss due to premature death, which is hard to observe or measure (when a person dies, this implies also the disappearance of her life projects and her life goals, all the things she would have done provided she did not die so early).

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  • Gregory Ponthiere, 2023. "Introduction: homo economicus, homo moriturus," Springer Books, in: Allocating Pensions to Younger People, chapter 0, pages 1-8, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-24748-4_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24748-4_1
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