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Why Do People Work If They Don’t Have To? Basic Income, Liberal Neutrality, and the Work Ethos

In: Basic Income Reconsidered

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  • Simon Birnbaum

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We have now reviewed a number of arguments for why schemes that provide unconditional payments to every member of society, irrespective of their willingness to work, may be superior to the work-tested minimum income programs of traditional welfare states. As discussed in the last two chapters, Philippe Van Parijs’s powerful neutrality-based justification of basic income argues that a universal arrangement of that kind serves to equalize access to certain external resources in a way that will expand people’s “real freedom” to do whatever they might want to do.

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  • Simon Birnbaum, 2012. "Why Do People Work If They Don’t Have To? Basic Income, Liberal Neutrality, and the Work Ethos," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Basic Income Reconsidered, chapter 0, pages 145-170, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-1-137-01542-6_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137015426_6
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