EVENTS | Conferences | May 2005
May 2, 2005
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics, Harvard University
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Description: Cultural diversity, it is often asserted, undermines
trust and makes mutual identification more difficult. As a result, it makes informal solidarity less
likely, and formal solidarity, as organized by the welfare state, harder to develop and sustain. By
perpetuating diversity, possibly also by breeding resentment, so-called multiculturalism policies further
bleaken the prospects for economic solidarity.
Are such assertions true? If so, to what extent and under what circumstances? If and when they are, what
should have priority? Should cultural diversity be sacrificed to the pursuit of economic solidarity? Or
should we accept to settle for more modest levels of solidarity in order to preserve cultural diversity?
The first half of this one-day conference will focus on the factual issues involved, the second half on
the normative issues.
Agenda: Click here for the program schedule
Papers: View the list of papers
Chairs: Professors Amartya Sen and Philippe Van Parijs
Contact information:
Jeana Flahive, Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics
Email: jflahive@wcfia.harvard.edu
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