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40 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol'y J. 153 (2018-2019)
Unconditional Basic Income and the Rejuvenation of the Welfare State: A Review of Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght

handle is hein.journals/cllpj40 and id is 177 raw text is: UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME AND THE REJUVENATION OF THE WELFARE STATE A REVIEW OF BASIC INCOME: A RADICAL PROPOSAL FOR A FREE SOCIETY AND A SANE ECONOMY BY PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS AND YANNICK VANDERBORGHT Robert van der Veent and Loek Groottt I. INTRODUCTION A. A Radical Proposal With Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght have managed to combine three ambitious goals in an exceptionally attractive format.' Their book is first a lively political treatise in the tradition of realistic utopianism, arguing for the radical proposal to rejuvenate the Western social model- under threat of automation, globalization, and ageing populations-by installing a basic needs-covering unconditional income at its core. It is, secondly, a surefooted didactic exposition of the topic's public economics and political economy aspects, taking off from the two Belgian authors' earlier collaboration in the French language primer l'Allocation Universelle (2000), duly broadened and assiduously updated to include many of the major developments and contributions of the last decades, from trials with unconditional cash grants in the developing world, Euro-dividend ideas, and the revival of experimentation with basic income-like arrangements. Thirdly, Basic Income marks the final stage of Van Parijs's ongoing effort from Real Freedom for All (1995)2 onwards, to bring political philosophy to bear on a definitive moral justification of the controversial unconditionalities of a basic t University of Amsterdam, Department of Political Science tt Utrecht University, Utrecht University School of Economics U.S.E. 1. PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS & YANNICK VANDERBORGHT, BASIC INCOME: A RADICAL PROPOSAL FOR A FREE SOCIETY AND A SANE ECONOMY (2017). 2. PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS, REAL FREEDOM FOR ALL: WHAT (IF ANYTHING) CAN JUSTIFY CAPITALISM? (1995).

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