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Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No

by Widerquist, K (2013)

Abstract

[From publisher] 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.

Keywords

Self-Ownership, Ownership, Propertylessness, Independence, Social Welfare, Basic Income, Vulnerability, Egalitarianism, Liberalism, Freedom

Themes

Universal Basic Income

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