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Basic Income Reconsidered

Social Justice, Liberalism, and the Demands of Equality

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  • © 2012

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Part of the book series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Introduction and Overview

  2. A Society of Equals: Radical Liberalism, Self-Respect, and Basic Income

  3. The Exploitation Objection against Basic Income: Equality of Opportunity, Luck, and Responsibility

  4. The Feasibility of Basic Income: Social Ethos, Work, and the Politics of Universalism

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About this book

Basic income is one the most innovative, powerful and controversial proposals for addressing poverty and growing inequalities. This book examines the arguments for and against basic income from the point of view of economic and social justice.

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"The book is full of enlightening argument, and particularly compelling is a method which sets out from a situation in which a Basic Income has been implemented and then studies a situation in which it has been abolished." - Citizen's Income Newsletter

"Overall, the book is a major contribution to the liberal egalitarian literature on basic income." - Ethical Perspectives

About the author

SIMON BIRNBAUM Researcher in the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden.

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