Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice

Detailed Table of Contents.- by Philippe Van Parijs A Basic Income for All: A Brief Defence. To Secure Real Freedom, Grant Everyone a Subsistence Income.- 1. Basic Income Confronted with some Popular Ideas of Justice.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Self-reliance.- 3. Reciprocity: not only the truly lazy.- 4. Basic income and the work ethic.- Summary and conclusions.- 2. Compensatory Justice and Basic Income.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The economist's view on compensatory justice.- 3. The objective approach to compensatory justice.- 4. The balancing approach to compensatory justice.- 5. The conditions of compensatory justice: the role of the social security system.- 6. Compensatory justice and parasitism.- Summary and conclusions.- 3. Basic Income and Unemployment.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Hamminga's thought experiment.- 3. The Labour Rights Scheme.- 4. The equivalent basic income scheme.- 5. Welfare policy and economic up- and downturns.- 6. Parisitism and exploitation.- 7. (Un)employment rents.- Summary and conclusions.- 4. Why Launch a Basic Income Experiment?.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The limitations of theoretical models and empirical research.- 3. Basic income versus negative income tax.- 4. The New Jersey income-maintenance experiment.- 5. Lessons drawn from the New Jersey experiments.- 6. Design of a new basic income experiment.- Summary and conclusions.- 5. First Steps Towards a Basic Income.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The impossibility theorem: A basic income is either too low to be socially acceptable or too high to be economically feasible.- 3. A partial basic income.- 4. An alternative route.- 5. Part-time workers.- 6. A differential basic income.- Summary and conclusions.- Conclusion.- References.- Author Index.