Why Do People Work If They Don’t Have To? Basic Income, Liberal Neutrality, and the Work Ethos

Simon Birnbaum

Chapter Chapter 6 in Basic Income Reconsidered, 2012, pp 145-170 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We have now reviewed a number of arguments for why schemes that provide unconditional payments to every member of society, irrespective of their willingness to work, may be superior to the work-tested minimum income programs of traditional welfare states. As discussed in the last two chapters, Philippe Van Parijs’s powerful neutrality-based justification of basic income argues that a universal arrangement of that kind serves to equalize access to certain external resources in a way that will expand people’s “real freedom” to do whatever they might want to do.

Keywords: Civil Society Activity; Basic Income; Neutrality Objection; Ethical Conviction; Real Freedom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137015426_6

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