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Developmental Freedom and Social Order: Rethinking the Relation between Work and Equality

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  • Louise Haagh

    (University of York)

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This essay points to an institutional account of our existential interest in work as a missing piece in welfare analysis. In contrast with social liberals in the post-war era, both liberal economic and egalitarian discourses today espouse a narrowly atomistic account of human nature and the modern economy. Therefore they are unable to take account of the institutional bases of economic development, individual autonomy and social order, and the way these connect. The essay shows that a patterning of distributional outcomes is a reality in both deregulated and densely governed capitalist economies, but that only the latter offers real scope for social and individual choice. The influence of the atomistic account on liberal egalitarian thought however has produced an unambitious, imprecise, and in the case of welfare contractualism, a coercive, account of both individual freedom and social community. What is needed is a more explicit inclusion of a temporal dimension in welfare and economic analysis and a more differentiated framework of pluralist governance.

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  • Louise Haagh, 2007. "Developmental Freedom and Social Order: Rethinking the Relation between Work and Equality," The Journal of Philosophical Economics, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, The Journal of Philosophical Economics, vol. 1(1), pages 119-160, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bus:jphile:v:1:y:2007:i:1:p:119-160
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    1. Birnbaum Simon & De Wispelaere Jurgen, 2016. "Basic Income in the Capitalist Economy: The Mirage of “Exit” from Employment," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 11(1), pages 61-74, June.
    2. Casassas David, 2016. "Economic Sovereignty as the Democratization of Work: The Role of Basic Income," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, June.
    3. Haagh Louise, 2015. "Alternative Social States and the Basic Income Debate: Institutions, Inequality and Human Development," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 10(1), pages 45-81, June.

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    Keywords

    Developmental freedom; occupation stability; Welfare Contractualism; economic institutions; dynamic efficiency;
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    JEL classification:

    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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