“In the 20th century, Americans adopted a new ‘social contract’—a support ... life,” to use Michael Lind’s definition of social contract from his 2007 New America Foundation paper.

In other words, the definition of “safety” that originally ... have gone out of their way to reject this saccharine social contract that offers us benefits conditioned on increased control ...

He currently researches and teaches economic sociology and the social studies of finance ... Unilateral Contracts As noted, a bilateral contract by definition has reciprocal obligations.

The capitalism-based definition of business states that companies ... and social responsibility in recognition of a de facto social contract with the public, their business models may expand ...

We’re going to have to adapt the social contract to facilitate the mechanisms to allow the state to bring populations under greater control by monitoring them without giving up our civil rights ...

The changes, if phased in, would be reasonable in scale, and would ensure future generations of workers are treated as fairly by the nation’s implicit social contract as were those for whom it ...

But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." Warren is (as William F. Buckley described Harvard economist John Kenneth ...