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I agree with Van Parijs that a theory of justice must meet the condition of indicating institutions that eliminate compulsory unemployment, but argue that his basic income is another form of unemployment compensation with all the disadvantages such compensations suffer from. In particular, it does not advance real freedom, but is liable to contribute to narrow political ends. I indicate an alternative and explicate, since Van Parijs disregards it, the right to work and its basis in the common property of natural resources. Finally, I compare the two competing conceptions of a good life that underlie his recommendation of a basic income and my rejection of it.

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Hillel Steiner is a libertarian who takes the equal right to natural resources seriously. Though there are objections to some of the conclusions he draws from this right, his approach might avoid the vices of liberalism and socialism and combine their virtues.

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Our acting and thinking can be guided by two ends which may combine but are irreducible nevertheless: the end of satisfying one's interests and the end of distinguishing between true and false, right and wrong. Recognition of the difference between these ends led philosophers before the modem age to contrasting the life of power and the life of spirit or mind. Modern philosophers, in particular pragmatists, utilitarians and communication theorists, tried to show that truth and justice can be conceived of without implying an opposition to power and mind. I argue that they are wrong.

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One of the first objections raised against Marx' Kapital was that it was an idealistic construction a priori of capitalist economy. Since Marx agreed that his book could seem to be so, we may assume that the analyses of Kapital are not only empirical. I try to show that (1) the analyses of the first chapters of Kapital give a conceptual construction of a model of commodity exchange made up both of generally recognized and of new definitions of commodity exchange, (2) that the model cannot be used for predicting the end of capitalist economy but that (3) it can be applied to reality because (a) the generally recognized definitions correspond to the ordinary usage of the words, (b) the new definitions are in accordance with true empirical statements about capitalist exchange, (c) the model has allowed true predictions about capitalist economy to be deduced, and (4) that therefore it can be used as a reason for putting an end to capitalist economy.

Engels' interpretation of Marx's economic theory of value. which has been widely accepted up to this day, is based on Marx's approach to a theory of value in his third volume of Capital. But the theory of value of the first volume of Capital, implied by Marx's analyses in the first volume of Capital and only summarized in its first chapter, is inconsistent with the third volume's approach. It is consistent with theories of value which do not hold that prices are deter mined by labour.

Main description: Gibt es Bedingungen gerechten Handelns, die die Politik zu beachten hat? Namhafte Philosophen aus dem deutschen Sprachraum begründen in diesem Buch, warum sich politisches Handeln am Maßstab der Gerechtigkeit orientieren muss, und zeigen am Beispiel aktueller politischer Probleme, welchen Beitrag die Philosophie zur Klärung der Prinzipien einer gerechten Politik zu leisten vermag.

Vorwort - Einführung - Ulrich Steinvorth: Warum der unfreiwillige Arbeitslose ein Unrecht leidet - Gerhard Kirchgässner: Kritische Analyse gut gemeinter Vorschläge zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit - Jürgen Kromphardt: Zu den Ursachen und zur Therapie der Arbeitslosigkeit. Eine Analyse mit Hilfe des arbeitsmarkttheoretischen Standardmodells - Heiner Flassbeck und Friederike Spiecker: Gewerkschaften und Arbeitslosigkeit - Jane Priewe: Der unaufhaltsame Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland - Wolf Schäfer: Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland: Wer wagt es wieder mal mit Keynes? - Christian Rolfs: Einführung in das Arbeitslosenrecht - Bernd Schulte: Die Entwicklung der Sozialpolitik der Europäischen Union unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Beschäftigungspolitik

PART I: RESTITUTING FAIR PLAY 1. Roger L. Martin, The Gaming of Games and the Principle of Principles 2. Hans Kueng, The Global Economic Crisis Requires a Global Ethic PART II: FOR QUALITATIVE GROWTH 3. Capra and Henderson, Qualitative Growth 4. Sandra Waddock, The Changing Social Role of Business in a World of Collapsing Boundaries PART III: FOR COOPERATION AND COMMUNITY 5. Alperovitz and Dubb, The Possibility of a Pluralist Commonwealth and a Community-Sustaining Economy 6. Riane Eisler, Roadmap to a New Economics: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism 7. Noreena Hertz, Co-op Capitalism PART IV: CHANGE BY SPECIFIC REFORMS: BASIC INCOME, PROPERTY RIGHTS, MONEY, EDUCATION 8. Ulrich Steinvorth, Marx's Critique of Capitalism and Basic Income 9. Shann Turnbull, What Defines Capitalism? What is Wrong With It and How to Fix it? 10. Fuders and Max-Neef, Local Money as Solution to Capitalist Global Financial Crises 11. Scharmer and Kaeuffer, Transforming from Ego to Eco Capitalism Conclusions