Arbeitspapier
Are we still modern? Inheritance law and the broken promise of the enlightenment
The regulation of the transfer of property mortis causa has been a major concern of social reformers since the Enlightenment. Today, by contrast, the issue of the bequest of wealth from generation to generation stirs hardly any political controversy. Since the mid-twentieth century the topic has lost much of its earlier significance in public debates. In this working paper I show that over the last forty years we can observe a backlash in key areas of inheritance law which breaks the Enlightenment's promise to distribute wealth in society based on individual achievement rather than ascriptive criteria. Hence the question: 'Are we still modern?'
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: MPIfG Working Paper ; No. 10/7
- Classification
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
- Subject
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Erbrecht
Sozialreform
Deutschland
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Beckert, Jens
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
- (where)
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Cologne
- (when)
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2010
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Beckert, Jens
- Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Time of origin
- 2010
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