Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income

A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-44580-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3261 g

Reihe: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Widerquist, K.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: The Big Casino 1. Introduction 2. Effective Control Self-Ownership: Freedom as the Power to Say No 3. Forty Acres and a Mule? Implications of Respecting Personal Independence 4. The Importance of Independence I: Framing the Issue 5. The Importance of Independence II: Freedom and Integrity 6. The Importance of Independence III: Market Vulnerability 7. What Good is a Theory of Freedom That Allows Forced Labor? ECSO Freedom and Modern Theories of Freedom 8. If You're an Egalitarian, Why Do You Want to Be the Boss of the Poor? ECSO Freedom and Liberal-Egalitarian Theories of Justice 9. On Duty 10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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.