An Essential Dimension ofsocial minimumdimension of the Social Minimumsocial minimum

Malcolm Torry ()
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Malcolm Torry: University of Bath

Chapter Chapter 6 in Basic Income—What, Why, and How?, 2022, pp 77-95 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines a ‘social minimum’ as ‘that bundle of resources which suffices in the circumstances of a given society to enable someone to lead a minimally decent life’. The Commonwealth Fund in the USA has ranked different OECD healthcare systems in relation to a number of characteristics, and this chapter broadens that approach to other ‘resources’ required for a social minimum—education, income, and so on—and goes on to construct a three-dimensional matrix as a way of conceptualising the social minimum in terms of ‘resources’, ‘characteristics’, and ‘mode of delivery’. In relation to a variety of resources, the conclusion is drawn that the method would enable us to choose the modes of delivery that would deliver the highest available social minimum.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14248-2_6

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