Envy and Blame in the UBI Discussion

IF 1 Q3 ECONOMICS

Basic Income Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-08 DOI:10.1515/bis-2021-0035

Marcel Franke

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Abstract

Abstract Envy and blame are two concepts that add social preferences to the economic behavior model of homo economicus. These have already been studied in general distributional issues as well as in the Edgeworth box. Building on this, these social preferences are examined specifically in the work-leisure model and applied to the example of a UBI. Here it is shown that envy is rather triggered by different endowments of individuals and blame only by different preferences. In the discussion about a UBI, this insight provides clarity about the normative basis of arguments against “free riders”. In terms of constitutional economics, envy can be combated through equality of opportunity, while blame can be contained through paternalism, at the expense of freedom of action.

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全民基本收入讨论中的嫉妒与指责

妒忌和责备是经济人经济行为模型中增加社会偏好的两个概念。这些已经在一般分布问题和埃奇沃斯盒子中进行了研究。在此基础上，这些社会偏好在工作-休闲模型中进行了具体检查，并应用于UBI的示例。这里的研究表明，嫉妒是由个体的不同禀赋引发的，只是由不同的偏好引起的。在关于全民基本收入的讨论中，这一见解为反对“搭便车者”的论点提供了清晰的规范基础。从宪政经济学的角度来看，嫉妒可以通过机会平等来对抗，而责备可以通过牺牲行动自由的家长式作风来遏制。

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Basic Income Studies ECONOMICS-

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2.40

自引率

18.20%

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期刊介绍： Basic income is a universal income grant available to every citizen without means test or work requirement. Academic discussion of basic income and related policies has been growing in the fields of economics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and public policy over the last few decades — with dozens of journal articles published each year, and basic income constituting the subject of more than 30 books in the last 10 years. In addition, the political discussion of basic income has been expanding through social organizations, NGOs and other advocacy groups. Internationally, recent years have witnessed the endorsement of basic income by grassroots movements as well as government officials in developing countries such as Brazil or South-Africa. As the community of people working on this issue has been expanding all over the world, incorporating grassroots activists, high profile academics — including several Nobel Prize winners in economics — and policymakers, the amount of high quality research on this topic has increased considerably. In the light of such extensive scholarship on this topic, the need to coordinate research efforts through a journal specifically devoted to basic income and cognate policies became pressing. Basic Income Studies (BIS) is the first academic journal to focus specifically on basic income and cognate policies.