Real Libertarianism Assessed: Political Theory after Van Parijs

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of the Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1.1 The reception of Real Freedom for All......Page 12
1.2 A brief overview......Page 13
1.3 The nature of a free society......Page 15
1.4 (Unconditional) basic income......Page 16
1.5 Measuring real freedom......Page 17
1.6 Undominated diversity......Page 19
1.7 Funding basic income and job assets......Page 20
1.9 A world of basic income?......Page 22
1.10 The search for social justice......Page 23
Notes......Page 24
2.2 Objections to Real Freedom for All......Page 26
2.3 Charlier......Page 28
2.4 State bonus......Page 33
2.5 Conclusion......Page 35
Notes......Page 36
3.1 Introduction......Page 40
3.2 The egalitarian liberal framework......Page 41
3.3 Self-ownership and the limits of taxation......Page 46
3.4 Social spending on the disadvantaged......Page 51
Notes......Page 59
4.1 Some difficulties in the measurement of real freedom......Page 64
4.2 Real freedom as real income......Page 69
4.3 From real freedom to basic income......Page 76
4.4 Some further problems with real freedom......Page 83
Notes......Page 89
5.1 Introduction......Page 91
5.2 Why leximin real freedom requires maximum basic income......Page 93
5.3 Real freedom and achievable well-being......Page 100
5.4 Pragmatic and principled defences of basic income......Page 102
Notes......Page 104
6 Should Surfers Be Fed?......Page 106
Notes......Page 120
7.1 Real libertarianism and resource egalitarianism......Page 122
7.2 From resource egalitarianism to basic income......Page 124
7.3 The restriction objection......Page 127
7.4 Is restriction illiberal or unfair......Page 128
7.5 Further replies......Page 131
7.6 Undominated diversity......Page 134
7.7 The slavery of the talented......Page 136
7.8 Fair insurance......Page 139
7.9 Against undominated diversity......Page 141
Notes......Page 143
8.1 Introduction: basic income and the exploitation objection......Page 147
8.2 The reciprocity principle......Page 149
8.3 Fair reciprocity and the exploitation objection......Page 153
8.4 Basic income as an instrument of fair reciprocity?......Page 157
8.5 Variants of basic income......Page 160
8.6 Conclusion: On the need to widen the scope of the basic income debate......Page 165
Notes......Page 166
9 Compatriot Priority and Justice among Thieves......Page 172
Notes......Page 181
10.1 Introduction......Page 183
10.2 Instrumentalism......Page 184
10.3 The rationale for instrumental evaluations of democracy......Page 185
10.4 Social-justice-guided constitutional engineering......Page 187
10.5 Disenfranchising the elderly......Page 188
10.6 The Machiavellian approach......Page 189
10.7 A puzzle about political equality......Page 191
10.8 A critique of Machiavellian instrumentalism......Page 192
10.9 Instrumentalism and inequality......Page 195
10.10 Constitutional engineering as precommitment......Page 197
10.12 Democracy and the equal consideration of interests......Page 199
10.13 Responsiveness and weak publicity......Page 200
10.14 Equality and democracy......Page 204
10.15 In defense of the narrow conception of political equality......Page 207
Notes......Page 208
11 Hybrid Justice, Patriotism and Democracy: a Selective Reply......Page 212
11.1 A hybrid conjecture in the form of three principles......Page 213
11.2 Undominated diversity, and why it is not enough......Page 214
11.3 The maximin distribution of the value of external endowments......Page 216
11.4 The proper place of solidarity......Page 218
11.5 Patriotism in the service of global justice?......Page 220
11.6 Democracy, a mere instrument?......Page 223
Notes......Page 225
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