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- Svensson, Peter
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Strangers in the Neighborhood: On the Loss of ‘Society’
- 2005
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Ingår i: Journal of Macromarketing. - : SAGE Publications. - 0276-1467 .- 1552-6534. ; 25:2, s. 219-221
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a comment and reflection on Hill’s text on unconditional basic income (this issue). It deals with a main tendency in contemporary, neoliberal societies, a tendency that—it is suggested—contributes to the experience of unconditional income as a controversial and even unrealistic proposition. Drawing inspiration from Hobbes’ Leviathan, itis argued that the harsh reception of the idea of an unconditional income is intertwined with a general erosion of the notion of society, that is, of a conception of a collective whole, a commonwealth, that transcends the individual.
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