Real Freedom for All: What (if Anything) Can Justify Capitalism?
Philippe Van Parijs
Abstract
What is a just society? It is a society in which the real freedom to do whatever one might wish to do is fairly distributed among all. This conception of social justice combines freedom, equality, and efficiency. It justifies granting to each citizen an unconditional basic income at the highest sustainable level consistent with two conditions: respect for everyone's formal freedom and an appropriate level of resources target at the less able. Is such an unconditional basic income not a recipe for exploitation of the hard workers by the lazy? Not in any sense that makes exploitation intrinsical ... More
Keywords: capitalism, equality, exploitation, income distribution just society, real freedom, social justice, socialism, sustainable, unconditional basic income
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1997 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198293576 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0198293577.001.0001 |
