Rechnung auf morgen
Schuldenfalle und Zukunftsinvestitionen: Was schulden wir zukünftigen Generationen?
24. Januar 2011, 19.30 Uhr
Frankfurter Rundschau / Depot Sachsenhausen / Karl-Gerold-Platz 1 / Frankfurt am Main
‘Intergenerational justice’ is a popular catchword which seems to be a sustaining ideology especially among younger politicians. The Council of Economic Experts defines it as follows with reference to the national and social welfare budgets: ‘A financial policy is sustainable when there is no sustainability gap, thus when the value of the latter is zero’. The principle of solidarity and the intergenerational contract are coming under increasing strain not only on account of the dramatic increase in the public debt but also because of adverse demographic developments, rising costs and growing unemployment. But what does justice between the generations actually mean? How can we be just towards unborn human beings when we do not and cannot know their specific needs and desires? Does intergenerational justice primarily mean saving and consolidating? Or is it also in the interest of future generations that we should invest today?
The speaker
Stefan Gosepath is Professor of International Political Theory of the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’ at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Moderator: Dr. Matthias Arning (FR)
Die Co-Sprecherin des Forschungszentrums "Normative Ordnungen" Prof. Nicole Deitelhoff erhält eine LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur des Landes Hessen. Wir freuen uns, dass diese Förderung ihre Forschungen zur Produktivität von Konflikten auch weiterhin fruchtbar machen wird. Weitere Informationen: 
