Affluence, Poverty and the Idea of a Post‐Scarcity Society

Anthony Giddens

Development and Change, 1996, vol. 27, issue 2, 365-377

Abstract: The ‘end of nature’ and the attenuation of tradition, associated with accelerated modernization on a global scale, increase the need for conscious reflection on many aspects of life formerly considered to be givens. Thus in developed and developing countries alike, new questions of personal choice and ethics form the basis for a kind of life politics which is different from — and supplements, but does not replace — the longer‐established practice of emancipatory politics, concerned above all with issues of social justice. This essay invites us to consider how life politics can generate new strategies to reduce inequality and alleviate poverty.

Date: 1996
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