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Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income

A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Karl Widerquist

    1. SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University, USA

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

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Prologue: The Big Casino

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 1-8

  3. Introduction

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 9-24

  4. Status Freedom as Effective Control Self-Ownership

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 25-50

  5. Forty Acres and a Mule? Implications of the Duty to Respect Personal Independence

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 51-71

  6. The Importance of Independence I: Framing the Issue

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 73-89

  7. The Importance of Independence II: Freedom and Integrity

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 91-105

  8. The Importance of Independence III: Market Vulnerability

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 107-120

  9. What Good Is a Theory of Freedom That Allows Forced Labor? Independence and Modern Theories of Freedom

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 121-143

  10. If You’re an Egalitarian, Why Do You Want to Be the Boss of the Poor? Independence and Liberal-Egalitarian Theories of Justice

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 145-169

  11. On Duty

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 171-186

  12. Conclusion

    • Karl Widerquist
    Pages 187-191

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 193-241
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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.

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"This book is many things: an exercise in political economy; a textbook on philosophy and social ethics; and a sustained argument for a Citizen's Income: and it is an excellent example of all of them . . . This is an important contribution to the literature on universal benefits, and therefore to the debate that might one day lead to their extension to working age adults." - Citizen's Income

Authors and Affiliations

  • SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University, USA

    Karl Widerquist

About the author

Karl Widerquist is Associate Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He holds two doctorates one in Political Theory from Oxford University (2006) and one in Economics from the City University of New York (1996). He is coauthor of Economics for Social Workers , coeditor of The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee , coeditor of Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Assessing its Suitability as a Model (Palgrave Macmillan), and coeditor of Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World (Palgrave Macmillan). He is a founding editor of the journal Basic Income Studies and has published scholarly articles on economics, politics, and philosophy in journals such as Political Studies, Utilitas, Eastern Economic Journal, Politics and Society , and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics .

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