Introduction: homo economicus, homo moriturus

Gregory Ponthiere

Chapter Chapter 1 in Allocating Pensions to Younger People, 2023, pp 1-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract 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).

Keywords: Welfare State; Social insurance; Premature death; Insurance against short life; Invisibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24748-4_1

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