Alternative Social States and the Basic Income Debate: Institutions, Inequality and Human Development

Alternative Social States and the Basic Income Debate: Institutions, Inequality and Human Development,” Basic Income Studies 10:1 (special edition on Piketty), August 2015.

“This essay explores how institutional responses to human development differentiate capitalist systems and shape developmental dimensions of stratification and freedom. I advocate differentiating the analyses of systems of institutions and freedom, including by setting out their developmental dimensions. Doing so allows me to analyse ethical and political problems of high inequality capitalism that Piketty highlights as they relate to the cooperative and developmental character of public services, and to set the BI project in relation to human development.”