Minimal Income as Basic Condition for Autonomy

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 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:...

Basic income – A transcultural perspective

Basic Operations: Minimal Syntax-Semantics

In this programmatic paper, we articulate a minimalist conception of linguistic composition, syntactic and semantic, with the aim of identifying fundamental operations invoked by the human faculty of language (HFL). 1. Introduction For these purposes, we take it as given that humans have such a faculty, stable states of which can be described as I-languages in Chomsky's (1986) sense. Idealizing...