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18 December, 2017

Equality of opportunity and the precarization of labour markets

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.

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18 September, 2019

The Case for Emissions Egalitarianism

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 22, no 2., doi.org/10.1007/s10677-019-10016-8 Abstract There is a fixed limit on the greenhouse gas emissions that the atmosphere can absorb before triggering dang

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17 January, 2022
Olle Torpman

Olle Torpman

I defended my dissertation on the implications of libertarianism on different climate issues at Stockholm university, and since then I have researched, among other subjects, principles of just allocat

Associate Professor, Philosophy
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