European Journal of Political Theory, DOI: 10.1177/1474885117738116 Abstract How can we equalize opportunities while respecting people’s freedom? According to a view that I call libertarian resourcism, pbecome a powerful weapon to criticize work conditionality as unfair and perfectionistic (or illiberal), and to motivate political struggles for the emancipation of the precariat. However, similar views are also expressed in many other justifications of basic income that stress the strategic importance of exit-based empowerment. This article argues that the reliance of these theories on concepts and assumptions of libertarianism makesthem ill-equipped to justify core requirements of social empowerment, and to identify the forms of agency needed to sustainably advance the radical objectives they favour. The implication of this is not to reject the link between social justice and unconditional resource endowments but to dissociate the justification and design of such measures from libertarian ways of thinking.

Equality for women, prosperity for all

Augusto Lopez-Claros, international economist currently on leave from his position at the World Bank to be Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, speaks about equality for women, drawing on his recen

Our social networks are widening, our society is becoming more egalitarian and violent social conflicts are decreasing. What is the connection between these three long-term and persistent trends?

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Michael Grätz, associate professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. He is al

Larry Temkin, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. The State University of New Jersey. ABSTRACT The goal of this talk is modest. It is simply to help illuminate

Geoffrey Brennan, Professor at the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University ABSTRACTThis paper propounds and explicates an 'Iron Law of inter-temporal income dispersion trans

Equality As Comparative Fairness with Larry Temkin

Recording of a seminar at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, May 2015.

Theoria Abstract This paper considers the view that the basis of equality isthe range property of being a moral person. This view,suggested by John Rawls in hisA Theory of Justice(1971),is commonly dism

The Journal of Ethics Abstract According to John Rawls’s famous Liberal Principle of Legitimacy, the exercise of political power is legitimate only if it is justifiable to all citizens. The currently dominternalistexternalistinclusive

Last week the institute was granted 8 million SEK by the Wallenberg Foundations for two research projects that will go on for four years. The boundary problem in democratic theory. Gustaf Arrhenius was g