Sharing Job Resources: Ethical Reftections on the Justification of Basic Income

Abstract: Philippe Van Parijs’s ethical justification of basic income is based on the argument that job resources must be shared equally. Underlying this idea are two important claims: (1) all individuals in society hold an ex. ante entitlement in job resources and (2) job resources are tradable: First, I present the real-libertarian argument for sharing job resources. Next, I identify and critically review three different objections against this view: the liability objection, the cooperation objection and the parasitism objection. I believe the parasitism objection poses a serious challenge to basic income, and argue that Van Parijs’s most plausible response-based on the idea that job resources are socially owned-is flawed. I provide the outline of an alternative normative basis for grounding a person's ex ante entitlement to job resources using an institutionalist approach.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Sharing Job Resources: Ethical Reftections on the Justification of Basic Income ; volume:22 ; number:2 ; year:2000 ; pages:237-256 ; extent:20 ; Analyse & Kritik ; 22, Heft 2 (2000), 237-256 (gesamt 20)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: De Wispelaere, Jurgen

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/auk-2000-0205
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404171601425.553208296577
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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