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Cultural Diversity versus
Economic Solidarity Philippe Van Paijs
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Other things being
equal, the more cultural diversity, the worse the prospects for economic
solidarity. Is this really true? If it is, what can be done to soften the
tension? And if a tension remains, should solidarity give way to diversity,
or should diversity be sacrificed to solidarity? For two days, over a
hundred scholars from several disciplines and many countries gathered in |
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Structured in a way
that mirrors the transdisciplinary format of the conference,
the present volume contains most of its ingredients, in several cases
substantially revised in the light of the discussion. By bringing together
contributions from sociolinguists and economic theorists as well as from
political philosophers and political scientists and by staging a dialogue
between them, it sheds new light on an explosive issue that is becoming ever
more essential in many countries and in the European Union as a whole. Philippe Van Parijs is professor at the Universite
Catholique de Louvain,
where he directs the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics since its
creation in 1991, and Visiting Professor at the philosophy department of He previously held
visiting positions in many other institutions, including the European
University Institute ( He is the author of
Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences (1981), Le Modele economique et ses rivaux (1990), Qu'est-ce qu'une societe juste? (1991), Marxism
Recycled (1993), Real Freedom for All (1995), Sauver
la Solidarite (1995), Refonder
la Solidarite (1996), Ethique
economique et Sociale
(2000, with C. Arnsperger), What's Wrong with a
Free Lunch? (2001), and Hacia una He was awarded the Francqui Prize in 2001.
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