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Is the Capability Approach Compatible With the Unconditional Basic Income?
Rajão, Hugo
2022
Abstract
This paper argues that the most effective way to distribute capabilities, as part of a capabilitybased theory of justice, involves the implementation of an unconditional basic income. On the one hand, unconditional access to the means – external conditions – required by capabilities has a positive impact on capabilities’ robustness and security. On the other hand, income, as an external condition, enhances at least three important aspects in the distribution of capabilities: (1) it enhances the multiple realisability of capabilities; (2) it allows for changes across time in the sources of variation that affect the conversion of means into capabilities; and (3) it increases the effectiveness of other external conditions with which income is combined.
Journal
Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Hugo Rajão, "Is the Capability Approach Compatible With the Unconditional Basic Income?" in: "Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2022) XXIV/1", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2022, pp. 409-428
Languages
en
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