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UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME AND THE REJUVENATION OF THE WELFARE STATE: A REVIEW OF BASIC INCOME: A RADICAL PROPOSAL FOR A FREE SOCIETY AND A SANE ECONOMY BY PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS AND YANNICK VANDERBORGHT
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UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME AND THE REJUVENATION OF THE WELFARE STATE: A REVIEW OF BASIC INCOME: A RADICAL PROPOSAL FOR A FREE SOCIETY AND A SANE ECONOMY BY PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS AND YANNICK VANDERBORGHT
2018
Overview
With Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght have managed to combine three ambitious goals in an exceptionally attractive format.1 Their book is first a lively political treatise in the tradition of \"realistic utopianism,\" arguing for the radical proposal to rejuvenate the Western social model- under threat of automation, globalization, and ageing populations-by installing a basic needs-covering unconditional income at its core. It is, secondly, a surefooted didactic exposition of the topic's public economics and political economy aspects, taking off from the two Belgian authors' earlier collaboration in the French language primer l'Allocation Universelle (2000), duly broadened and assiduously updated to include many of the major developments and contributions of the last decades, from trials with unconditional cash grants in the developing world, Euro-dividend ideas, and the revival of experimentation with basic income-like arrangements. Thirdly, Basic Income marks the final stage of Van Parijs's ongoing effort from Real Freedom for All (1995)2 onwards, to bring political philosophy to bear on a definitive moral justification of the controversial unconditionalities of a basic income (individuality, universality, and obligation-freeness) from the perspective of liberal egalitarianism, as worked out by John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin.3The eight chapters of Basic Income proceed from a lucid exposition of the nature and consequences of inserting basic income's three unconditionalities in the household-based, work- and means-tested environment of existing social security in Chapter 1, working from there to articulate the \"radical proposal\" in the national context of affluent welfare state economies. The territorial context is widened only in Chapter 8 to include brief speculations on a global basic income, and a more detailed plea for a low-level supranational basic income in a European Transfer Union based on the authors' own ongoing work. We leave aside these issues in this review. What goes on between this first and last chapter answers to the threefold aims mentioned above: political treatise, didactic exposition, and philosophical defense.
