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?'
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: MPIfG Working Paper ; No. 10/7
- Klassifikation
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
- Thema
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Erbrecht
Sozialreform
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Beckert, Jens
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
- (wo)
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Cologne
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Beckert, Jens
- Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Entstanden
- 2010
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