{"id":452,"date":"2011-03-05T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T10:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=452"},"modified":"2011-03-05T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T10:04:18","slug":"the-calculus-of-needs-and-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/03\/05\/the-calculus-of-needs-and-means\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calculus of Needs and Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a meeting the other day, I heard myself say, without really thinking, \"Social justice always trumps equality\". \u00a0This was in response to a half-hearted complaint that someone (not me) had a bigger mug of tea than everyone else. \u00a0It has to be true, of course, because the calculus of needs and means should always favour need: treat everyone equally unless circumstances merit some being treated differently. \u00a0I thought of this when reading about the European Court of Justice's latest judgement (on insurance and gender discrimination) which will surely affect us all. \u00a0See the Economist's\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/bagehot\/2011\/03\/european_court_justice\">Bagehot<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/buttonwood\/2011\/03\/sex_discrimination_and_insurance\">Buttonwood<\/a> columns for further (witheringly scornful) comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a meeting the other day, I heard myself say, without really thinking, \"Social justice always trumps equality\". \u00a0This was in response to a half-hearted complaint that someone (not me) had a bigger mug of tea than everyone else. \u00a0It...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}