Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income

1. Front Matter

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2. Prologue: The Big Casino

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   Pages 1-8

3. Introduction

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   Pages 9-24

4. Status Freedom as Effective Control Self-Ownership

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   Pages 25-50

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

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   Pages 51-71

6. The Importance of Independence I: Framing the Issue

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7. The Importance of Independence II: Freedom and Integrity

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8. The Importance of Independence III: Market Vulnerability

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

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   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

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11. On Duty

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12. Conclusion

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13. Back Matter

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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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• income
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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

• SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University, USA

  Karl Widerquist

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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