Theoretical Basis of Distributive Policies for Libertarianism, especially Basic Income

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K22060
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0105:Law and related fields
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: FUKUHARA Akio 九州大学, 法学研究院, 准教授 (90878258)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-09-11 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: リバタリアニズム / 分配施策

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examines whether basic income, which has attracted much academic and social interest, can be defended from the moderate libertarianism I have been studying. BI has been the subject of debate from a variety of perspectives in a variety of fields, and it can be defended from the perspective of moderate libertarianism. At the same time, however, it became clear that there are many other aspects of BI that are not only distributive justice, and that cannot be captured by the concern about whether BI can be connected to specific distributive principles. This gave rise to the task of explaining how the principle of distributive justice can explain what is the significance and necessity of taking particular distributive measures.

Free Research Field

法哲学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、日本における福祉政策に関する論議において度々話題に挙がるベーシック・インカムについて、穏当なリバタリアニズムからも擁護可能であることを明らかにした。一方で、巷間よく取り上げられるBIの実現可能性のような実践上の問題とは別の位相に、単に「分配的正義の具体化としてどのような施策が適切か」という関心では捉えられない、分配施策の性質による、正義構想との間で検討されるべき問題が存在していることも明らかにした。これは、今後の政策論議においても、高／低福祉という論じ方では足りない側面があることを示唆するものと考えている。