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SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE FUTURE OF THE SOCIAL ECONOMY
Author(s) -
PARIJS Philippe
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
annals of public and cooperative economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-8292
pISSN - 1370-4788
DOI - 10.1111/apce.12082
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , sustainability , social justice , social economy , profit (economics) , economics , economic justice , economic system , business , public economics , market economy , microeconomics , political economy , management , ecology , biology
A just society is a society whose institutions sustainably secure the greatest possible real freedom to those with least real freedom. It must comprise a ‘social economy’ for two reasons : (1) its greater ability to achieve a fruitful combination between the flexibility it shares with the for‐profit sector and the trust it shares with the public sector; (2) its ability to mobilize ‘self exploitation’ and thereby to meet many needs that could only be met by the other two sectors at a prohibitive price. Moreover, a just society requires the introduction of an unconditional basic income, which provides a simple, non‐intrusive way of systematically encouraging and stabilizing the social economy.