The Limits of Obligation

This is a hardcover book published with a dust jacket by Yale University Press, New Haven in 1982. This book explores the breakdown of our common moral assumptions when they are applied to large numbers and suggests we must drastically rethink the ethics of individual choice. As of 2018, the author, James Fishkin, (born 1948) holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, where he is professor of communication and (by courtesy) professor of political science. He is also director of Stanford's Center for Deliberative Democracy. Fishkin is a widely cited scholar on his work on deliberative democracy.