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. Defending the conception of "radical liberalism", the book argues that basic income proposal provides the foundation for an inspiring and attractive vision of a society that is at the same time economically and socially more equal, more liberal with respect to the diversity of different ways to live, and more environmentally sustainable than existing welfare states. By systematically connecting abstract philosophical debates over competing principles of justice to the empirical analysis of concrete policy proposals, this work develops a contribution to the fields of economics, politics, and philosophy and provides a theoretical framework for interdisciplinary research on social justice in practice.
Acknowledgments * Introduction and Overview * 1. Basic Income, Liberal Egalitarianism, and the Study of Social Justice * Part One. A Society of Equals: Radical Liberalism, Self-Respect, and Basic Income * 2. Equality of Status and its Priority: A Rawlsian Case for Basic Income * 3. Are Only Contributors Entitled to Social Rights? Cooperation, Reciprocity and the Boundaries of Social Justic * Part Two. The Exploitation Objection Against Basic Income: Equality of Opportunity, Luck and Responsibility * 4. Why Unconditional Transfers Are Not Exploitative * 5. Jobs as Gifts. A Reconstruction and a Qualified Defense * Part Three. The Feasibility of Basic Income: Social Ethos, Work, and the Politics of Universalism * 6. Why Do People Work if They Don't Have To? Basic Income, Liberal Neutrality and the Work Ethos * 7. Social Justice in Practice. On the Political Implications of Radical Liberalism * References * Index
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