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Basic Capital in the Egalitarian Toolkit?
- Abstract:
- Under a basic capital grant policy (BC), every citizen receives a large capital grant as a right, typically in their early adulthood. Is BC part of the institutional framework of a just economy? Starting from John Rawls’s discussion of just economic systems, the paper clarifies Rawls’s reasons for thinking we need to complement welfare state policies with property-owning democracy and/or liberal socialist policies. It then seeks to clarify the grounds specifically for BC as a particular policy of the property-owning democracy type, and considers in depth what it adds to a policy of basic income (a uniform, universal and unconditional income grant paid to all, possibly in some part as a share of the return on publicly-owned wealth).
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1111/japp.12129
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- Journal of Applied Philosophy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 417-431
- Publication date:
- 2015-11-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-04-21
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0264-3758
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0264-3758
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- 2015
- Notes:
- This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: White, S. (2015), Basic Capital in the Egalitarian Toolkit?. J Appl Philos, 32: 417–431., which has been published in final form at 10.1111/japp.12129. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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