Basic Income as a Socialist Project

Basic Income as a Socialist Project

Most discussions of Basic Income revolve around two clusters of issues: first, the normative implications of Basic Income for various conceptions of justice, and second, the pragmatic problems of the sustainability of basic income given a range of economic considerations including such things as effects on tax rates, incentives, labor markets, and so on. These are obviously important issues, bu...

Basic Income as a Socialist Project1

Most discussions of basic income revolve around two clusters of issues: first, the normative implications of basic income for various conceptions of justice, and second, the pragmatic problems of the sustainability of basic income given a range of economic considerations including such things as effects on tax rates, incentives, labor markets, and so on. These are obviously important issues, bu...

Basic income – A transcultural perspective

Basic Income and the Labor Contract Basic Income and the Labor Contract Basic Income and the Labor Contract Basic Income and the Labor Contract 2. Basic Income Arguments from Justice and Objections from Their Critics

The paper starts by exploring the negative contingencies that are associated with the core institution of capitalist societies, the labour contract: unemployment, poverty, and denial of autonomy. It argues that these are the three conditions that basic income schemes can help prevent. Next, the three major normative arguments are discussed that are raised by opponents of basic income proposals:...

A Procosii Project Final Report: Esprit Basic Research Project 7071

An overview of the research and associated activities of the European collaborative ESPRIT Basic Research ProCoS II project (no. 7071) on \Provably Correct Systems" which ran from 1992 to 1995 is presented. This was a follow-on project to ProCoS (no. 3104) and ran in parallel with the ProCoS-WG Working Group (no. 8694), all previously announced in the Bulletin of the EATCS [3, 17, 18]. A compre...