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Subject(s)

• Basic needs [Browse]
• Capitalism—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Basic income [Browse]
• Income [Browse]
• Liberty [Browse]
• Social justice [Browse]

Series

Oxford political theory. [More in this series]

Summary note

Assessing and rejecting the claims of both socialism and conventional capitalism, the author presents his alternative vision of the just society: a capitalist society offering a substantial unconditional basic income to all its members.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Language note

English

Contents

• ""Preface""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1. CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, AND FREEDOM""; ""Prologue""; ""1.1 Capitalism versus socialism""; ""1.2 Pure socialism as the free society""; ""1.3 Pure capitalism as the free society""; ""1.4 Individual versus collective sovereignty""; ""1.5 Freedom to what? Duty, autonomy, and potential desire""; ""1.6 Freedom from what? Two notions of coercion""; ""1.7 Formal freedom versus real freedom""; ""1.8 Real-libertarianism""; ""2. THE HIGHEST SUSTAINABLE BASIC INCOME""; ""Prologue""; ""2.1 A radical suggestion""; ""2.2 Unconditionality and real freedom""
• ""2.3 Sustainability""""2.4 Cash or kind?""; ""2.5 Initial endowment or regular instalment?""; ""2.6 What metric for real freedom?""; ""2.7 Competitive pricing, opportunity costs, and envy-freeness""; ""2.8 Comparing real freedom across regimes""; ""Appendix: Basic income versus negative income tax""; ""3. UNDOMINATED DIVERSITY""; ""Prologue""; ""3.1 The extended auction""; ""3.2 Working in the peep-show, flirting in the square""; ""3.3 Insurance behind a veil of ignorance""; ""3.4 Four objections to Dworkin""; ""3.5 Ackerman generalized""; ""3.6 Not enough redistribution?""
• ""3.7 Alternative strategies""""3.8 Too much redistribution?""; ""Appendix 1: Roemer versus Dworkin""; ""Appendix 2: Affluence, opulence, abundance, and minimum income guarantees""; ""Appendix 3: Undominated diversity and envy-freeness""; ""4. JOBS AS ASSETS""; ""Prologue""; ""4.1 The Crazyâ€?Lazy challenge""; ""4.2 Rawls versus Dworkin""; ""4.3 Can our inheritance be boosted?""; ""4.4 Equal endowments in a non-Walrasian world""; ""4.5 Sharing, bribing, and the elimination of job scarcity""; ""4.6 From job auctions to income tax""
• ""4.7 An inconsistent proposal? Employment rents with unequal talents""""4.8 A slippery slope? From the right to work to the right to marry""; ""Appendix: Crazy, Lazy, and Rawls's revised Difference Principle""; ""5. EXPLOITATION VERSUS REAL FREEDOM""; ""Prologue""; ""5.1 Deriving an advantage from someone's work""; ""5.2 Power, gifts, free rides""; ""5.3 Lockean exploitation""; ""5.4 Creators keepers""; ""5.5 Lutheran exploitation""; ""5.6 To each according to her efforts""; ""5.7 Roemerian exploitation""; ""5.8 Asset-based inequality""; ""6. CAPITALISM JUSTIFIED?""; ""Prologue""
• ""6.1 Optimal capitalism versus optimal socialism""""6.2 The capitalist shaping of preferences""; ""6.3 Market failures and dispensable activities""; ""6.4 Crises""; ""6.5 The reserve army of the unemployed""; ""6.6 Creative destruction""; ""6.7 Popular sovereignty""; ""6.8 Steering clear of Penguins Island""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index of Names""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Index of Subjects""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""
• ""I""

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ISBN

• 0-19-160007-5
• 0-19-152093-4
• 9786612006944
• 1-282-00694-0

OCLC

922954062

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