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Juliana Bidadanure is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Political Science, at Stanford University. She is also the founder and Faculty Director of the Stanford Basic Income Lab. Her interests lie at the intersection of Philosophy and Public Policy. She has been working on how we should conceptualize the value of equality in general, and in particular on inequalities between age groups and generations.
Bidadanure's book is excellent, and probably the best piece of philosophy on its subject matter. Anyone remotely interested in how we should understand justice between the old and the young will benefit from a careful reading of this book. * Daniel Halliday, University of Melbourne, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics * This is a pioneering, landmark book on justice between age groups. It makes a compelling argument that inequality between age groups matters for justice. It explains ways in which existing economic and political institutions are profoundly unjust to young adults and suggests ways to correct this. In doing so, the book casts important new light on the nature of egalitarianism and offers a superb model of how to integrate philosophical argument into the evaluation of public policy and political institutions. * Stuart White, Associate Professor of Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Jesus College, University of Oxford * More saliently than ever in the covid age, entitlements and burdens vary greatly with age. Juliana Bidadanure has thought harder than anyone ever did about what justice between age groups requires and how our policies and attitudes must change to satisfy its requirements. A wonderful book full of new questions and new insights. * Philippe Van Parijs, Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics, University of Louvain * Justice Across Ages is a tour de force examination of justice between age groups. Bidadanure champions relational egalitarianism and presents a theory of age group justice that offers readers the analytic tools to assess inequalities in a wide range of areas, from jobs and basic income, to parliaments and political power. What makes this contribution such a rare gem is that the vast majority of scholars (myself included) working on age group justice concentrate on older age groups. Bidadanure takes a different tack, homing in on the moral claims of people who are young. * Nancy Jecker, Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington, Author of Ending Midlife bias: New Values for Old Age * Issues of justice between age groups (e.g., children, adolescents, young adults, the middle-aged, and the elderly) and justice between birth cohorts (the group of individuals born around a certain time as compared to successive groups born at later times) are complex and difficult and their interaction, even more so. This nexus of problematic issues has met its match in Juliana Bidadanure's brilliant new book. Her strategy of focusing on the injustices in society's treatment of young adults pays off in genuinely original and deep analytical insights concerning what is required to forge a society in which we relate to all as equals and stand to one another as equals-including the young. * Richard Arneson, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego *
