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About: Basic income is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1308 publications have been published within this topic receiving 13190 citations.


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27 Jul 1995
TL;DR: Van Parijs as mentioned in this paper proposes an alternative vision of the just society: a capitalist society offering a substantial unconditional basic income to all its members, and then goes on to demonstrate what his ideal of free society means in the real world by drawing out its policy implications.
Abstract: Capitalist societies are full of unacceptable inequalities. Freedom is of paramount importance. These two convictions are widely shared across the world. Yet they often seem in complete contradiction with each other. Fighting inequality jeopardizes freedom; taking freedom seriously boosts inequality. What can be done? Philippe Van Parijs offers a solution to the dilemma. Assessing and rejecting the claims of both socialism and conventional capitalism, he presents an alternative vision of the just society: a capitalist society offering a substantial unconditional basic income to all its members. The author then goes on to demonstrate what his ideal of free society means in the real world by drawing out its policy implications.

574 citations

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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: Van Parijs as discussed by the authors presents an alternative vision of the just society: a capitalist society offering a substantial and unconditional basic income to all its members, and reveals a new ideal of a free society and its meaning in the real world.
Abstract: Capitalist societies are full of unacceptable inequalities. Freedom is of paramount importance. These two convictions, widely shared around the world, seem to be in direct contradiction with each other. Fighting inequality jeopardizes freedom, and taking freedom seriously boosts inequality. Can this conflict be resolved? In this ground-breaking book, Philippe Van Parijs sets a new and compelling case for a just society. Assessing and rejecting the claims of both socialism and conventional capitalism, he presents a clear and compelling alternative vision of the just society: a capitalist society offering a substantial and unconditional basic income to all its members. Not just an exercise in political theory, this book reveals a new ideal of a free society and its meaning in the real world by drawing out its policy implications. It is essential reading for anyone concerned about the just society and the welfare state as we move into the twenty-first century.

396 citations

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TL;DR: This article argued that a defensible liberal theory of justice, that is truly committed to an equal concern for all and to nondiscrimination among conceptions of the good life, does justify, under appropriate factual conditions, a substantial unconditional basic income.
Abstract: This chapter argues that a defensible liberal theory of justice, that is, one that is truly committed to an equal concern for all and to nondiscrimination among conceptions of the good life, does justify, under appropriate factual conditions, a substantial unconditional basic income. There is a nonarbitrary and generally positive legitimate level of basic income that is determined by the per capita value of society's external resources and must be entirely financed by those who appropriate these resources. If involuntary unemployment is high, the corresponding basic income will be high. The chapter also argues that Senator Yee was unfair to the welfare hippies, and that John Rawls is being unfair to the Malibu surfers. A first track well worth exploring is the one Rawls himself suggested in reply to an objection closely related to our Crazy-Lazy challenge, presented to him by Richard Musgrave.

324 citations

Book
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue against paternalistic policy responses in favour of an egalitarian strategy to build occupational citizenship, founded on full freedom and basic income security in which all forms of work can flourish.
Abstract: In this ground-breaking book, Guy Standing offers a new perspective on work and citizenship, rejecting the labourist orientation of the 20th century. Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation marked the rise of industrial citizenship, which hinged on fictitious labour decommodification. Since the 1970s, this has collapsed. Work and labour are being revolutionized by a Global Transformation that has seen the emergence of a new class structure, including a global 'precariat', alongside unsustainable inequalities and insecurities. Guy Standing argues against paternalistic policy responses in favour of an egalitarian strategy to build occupational citizenship, founded on full freedom and basic income security in which all forms of work can flourish. The book also explores a phasing out of labour law and a re-orientation of collective bargaining towards 'collaborative bargaining', to reflect the new realities in which relationships between groups of workers are as or more important in people's working lives as those between workers and capital.

255 citations

Book
09 May 2015
TL;DR: Fernández as discussed by the authors examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens, and argues that these programs' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass unemployment provide an opportunity for rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of political mobilization.
Abstract: In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death of the welfare state. These programs' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass unemployment, Ferguson argues, provide an opportunity for rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of political mobilization. Interested in an emerging "politics of distribution," Ferguson shows how new demands for direct income payments (including so-called "basic income") require us to reexamine the relation between production and distribution, and to ask new questions about markets, livelihoods, labor, and the future of progressive politics.

253 citations


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2022141
202188
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2019162
201886