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# *Is the Welfare State Justified?*

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Date and Time 

October 29, 2007 12 - 1:30 PM EDT 

Location 

1st floor/Wintergarden 

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Featuring **Daniel Shapiro**, Associate Professor of Philosophy, West Virginia University, with comments by **Jason Furman**, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hamilton Project, Brookings Institute and **Will Wilkinson**, Policy Analyst and Managing Editor of *Cato Unbound*, Cato Institute. 

In his new book, *Is The Welfare State Justified?*, philosopher Daniel Shapiro insightfully combines moral and political philosophy with contemporary social science to argue that proponents of the welfare state — egalitarians, communitarians, and liberals alike — have misunderstood the implications of their own principles, which in fact support more market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than most people realize. Please join us for a discussion of this important and controversial new book on the missing moral foundations of the welfare state.

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