Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice [electronic resource]

Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice
Author: Loek Groot
Published by Springer US
ISBN: 978-1-4419-5251-6
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2726-0

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A Basic Income for All: A Brief Defence × To Secure Real Freedom, Grant Everyone a Subsistence Income
• Basic Income Confronted with some Popular Ideas of Justice
• Compensatory Justice and Basic Income
• Basic Income and Unemployment
• Why Launch a Basic Income Experiment?
• First Steps Towards a Basic Income
• Conclusion

Basic income is a regularly debated topic in various scholarly disciplines (political philosophy, political theory, welfare economics, labour market economics and social policy) and in circles of policy makers, administrators and activists. Since the late 1970s, unemployment is the primary problem for social-economic policy in all welfare states. In Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice it is argued that implementing a substantial basic income is the best policy response to deal with unemployment-induced problems such as job insecurity, social exclusion, poverty and lack of compensatory justice on the labour market and to improve labour market flexibility, boost low wage employment and part-time work. Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice, with an introductory chapter by Philippe van Parijs, discusses the attractiveness of a substantial basic income to deal with the problem of unemployment, in combination with an ethical perspective of social justice. Loek Groot is a senior lecturer at the Utrecht School of Economics
Detailed Table of Contents -- by Philippe Van Parijs A Basic Income for All: A Brief Defence. To Secure Real Freedom, Grant Everyone a Subsistence Income -- 1. Basic Income Confronted with some Popular Ideas of Justice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Self-reliance -- 3. Reciprocity: not only the truly lazy -- 4. Basic income and the work ethic -- Summary and conclusions -- 2. Compensatory Justice and Basic Income -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The economist's view on compensatory justice -- 3. The objective approach to compensatory justice -- 4. The balancing approach to compensatory justice -- 5. The conditions of compensatory justice: the role of the social security system -- 6. Compensatory justice and parasitism -- Summary and conclusions -- 3. Basic Income and Unemployment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hamminga's thought experiment -- 3. The Labour Rights Scheme -- 4. The equivalent basic income scheme -- 5. Welfare policy and economic up- and downturns -- 6. Parisitism and exploitation -- 7. (Un)employment rents -- Summary and conclusions -- 4. Why Launch a Basic Income Experiment? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The limitations of theoretical models and empirical research -- 3. Basic income versus negative income tax -- 4. The New Jersey income-maintenance experiment -- 5. Lessons drawn from the New Jersey experiments -- 6. Design of a new basic income experiment -- Summary and conclusions -- 5. First Steps Towards a Basic Income -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The impossibility theorem: A basic income is either too low to be socially acceptable or too high to be economically feasible -- 3. A partial basic income -- 4. An alternative route -- 5. Part-time workers -- 6. A differential basic income -- Summary and conclusions -- Conclusion -- References -- Author Index