Language:
English
Pages:
ca. 256 S.
Series Statement:
Exploring the basic income guarantee
Parallel Title:
Print version Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income : A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No
Keywords:
Political philosophy
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Social sciences Philosophy
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Economic theory
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Welfare economics
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International economics
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Economic policy
Abstract:
Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income argues that philosophers have focused too much on scalar freedom and proposes a theory of status freedom as effective control self-ownership: the power to have or refuse active cooperation with other willing people, or simply: freedom as the power to say no
Abstract:
Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income argues that philosophers have focused too much on scalar freedom and proposes a theory of status freedom as effective control self-ownership: the power to have or refuse active cooperation with other willing people, or simply: freedom as the power to say no
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Prologue: The Big Casino; 1 Introduction; 1. Failure to Preserve Freedom; 2. Failure to Follow from Freedom; 3. A Proposed Solution; 4. Alternative Solutions; 5. Preview of This Work; 2 Status Freedom as Effective Control Self-Ownership; 1. The Concept of Status Freedom and the Need for a Theory of It; 2. Derivation, Definition, and Discussion of ECSO Freedom; A. Control Self-Ownership; B. Effective Self-Ownership; C. Effective Control Self-Ownership; D. Independence; E. Independence and Negative Freedom
Description / Table of Contents:
F. Dependence and InterdependenceG. Interdependence and Independence; 3. Conclusion; 3 Forty Acres and a Mule? Implications of the Duty to Respect Personal Independence; 1. To Say No to What?; 2. Dissent and Disadvantage; 3. The Complexity of Separating Freedom and Unfreedom; 4. Alienation of ECSO Freedom; 5. Moral Duty and Status Freedom; 6. From Human Need to Basic Income; A. Theories of Need; B. Capability in Cash, Kind, or Raw Resources; C. The Negative Freedom Argument for the Basic Income Guarantee; 7. Conclusion; 4 The Importance of Independence I: Framing the Issue
Description / Table of Contents:
1. The Social Responsibility to Work and Its Discontents2. Three Models and Three Mechanisms; A. Three Models; B. Three Mechanisms; 3. Modeling and Mechanizing Individual Economic Participation; 4. Conclusion; 5 The Importance of Independence II: Freedom and Integrity; 1. The Self-Evident Value of Voluntary Interaction; 2. Why the Trade Model Is Appropriate for Most Economic Interaction; 3. Agreement as a Constituent Part of Just Interaction; 4. Integrity; 5. Integrity, Freedom, and the Goals of the Joint Project; 6. Integrity, Freedom, and the Fairness of the Joint Project
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Why Don't More People Feel Unfree?6 The Importance of Independence III: Market Vulnerability; 1. The Invisible Hand and Economic Independence; 2. Regulation as a Substitute for Independence; 3. The Value of Independence Outside the Market; 4. Conclusion; 7 What Good Is a Theory of Freedom That Allows Forced Labor? Independence and Modern Theories of Freedom; 1. Effective Freedom in the History of Political Thought; 2. Freedom as Formal but Ineffective Self-Ownership; A. Ineffective Self-Ownership in Natural Property Rights Theory
Description / Table of Contents:
B. Nominal Self-Ownership and Nominal Self-Ownership Plus Something3. Autonomy and Effective Basic Autonomy; 4. The Pros and Cons of Freedom as Non-Domination; 5. Indepentarianism and Sufficientarianism; 6. Indepentarianism and Left-Libertarianism; 7. Indepentarianism and Real Libertarianism; 8 If You're an Egalitarian, Why Do You Want to Be the Boss of the Poor? Independence and Liberal-Egalitarian Theories of Justice; 1. Elizabeth Anderson; 2. Stuart White; 3. John Rawls; A. Rawlsian Arguments in Favor of Independence and Unconditional Income
Description / Table of Contents:
B. Rawlsian Arguments against Unconditional Income
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1057/9781137313096
URN:
10.1057/9781137313096
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