David Piachaud, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, last November put forward a four-pronged case against basic income – on the grounds of justice, simplicity, economic efficiency and political feasibility. While the argument, I believe, fails on all four counts, I’ll here focus on the justice argument.
To summarize, Piachaud outlines Philippe van Parijs’ famous argument for basic income from his 1991 paper “ Why Surfers Should be Fed: The Liberal Case for an Unconditional Basic Income ” and claims that the fatal flaw of van Parijs’ argument is that he does not take into […]
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