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Basic Income Is Not an Obligation, But It Might Be a Legitimate Choice
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Michael C. Munger
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January 19, 2012
A distinction is made between libertarian destinations and libertarian directions. Basic income cannot be part of a truly libertarian state unless it could be accomplished entirely through voluntary donations. But basic income is an important step in a libertarian direction because it improves core values such as self-ownership, liberty and efficiency of transfers while reducing coercion and increasing procedural fairness. Practical approaches to achieving basic income are compared to proposals by Milton Friedman and Charles Murray.
Published Online: 2012-1-19
©2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Front Matter
- List of Contributors
- Content
- Book Review
- Review of Gijs van Donselaar, The Right to Exploit: Parasitism, Scarcity, Basic Income
- Review of Doris Schroeder, Work Incentives and Welfare Provision: The "Pathological" Theory of Unemployment
- Introduction: What is Libertarianism?
- A Lockean Argument for Basic Income
- Locke on Basic Income
- Taking the "G" out of BIG: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on Basic Income
- Classical Liberalism and the Basic Income
- Basic Income Is Not an Obligation, But It Might Be a Legitimate Choice
- Two Libertarian Arguments for Basic Income Proposals
- Libertarianism and the Justice of a Basic Income
