Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee) - Softcover

Widerquist, K.

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ISBN 10: 1349445800 ISBN 13: 9781349445806

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income argues that philosophers have focused too much on scalar freedom and proposes a theory of status freedom as effective control self-ownership: the power to have or refuse active cooperation with other willing people, or simply: freedom as the power to say no.

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Karl Widerquist is Associate Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He holds two doctorates one in Political Theory from Oxford University (2006) and one in Economics from the City University of New York (1996). He is coauthor of Economics for Social Workers , coeditor of The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee , coeditor of Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Assessing its Suitability as a Model (Palgrave Macmillan), and coeditor of Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World (Palgrave Macmillan). He is a founding editor of the journal Basic Income Studies and has published scholarly articles on economics, politics, and philosophy in journals such as Political Studies, Utilitas, Eastern Economic Journal, Politics and Society , and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics .

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1349445800
• ISBN 13: 9781349445806
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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