Bru Laín
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 376626 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bru Laín |
| PRENOMES | Bru |
| SOBRENOME | Laín |
| ASSINATURA | LAÍN B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7523-6275 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
American Republican Property and Its Global Constitutional Legacy
The republican conception of property developed during the American founding continues to shape contemporary legal and constitutional orders, yet its foundations and legacy remain underappreciated. This article reconstructs that tradition by showing that American republicanism understood property as a politically constituted, fiduciary entitlement oriented to public purposes. On this view, property emerges as a civil right grounded in the social …
Fiduciary-Republican Property
Can property ownership be essentially equated with the absolute and individual right to exclude others from a resource? By critically assessing this question, this article reconstructs the republican conception of property, explaining the way it was formerly shaped by the ancient natural law, and then by the Lockean tradition. Both intellectual and conceptual influences molded modern republican's property conception as a kind of fiduciary relatio…
Addressing the Sharing Economy—Some (Potential) Inconsistencies of Its Emancipatory Defense
The sharing economy (SE) is a strongly contested idea, both conceptually and politically. This paper first explores multiple existing definitions, emphasizing the challenges in both conceptual and operational terms they usually entail. It is argued that most of the common definitions tend to exacerbate tensions between informativeness and veracity, resulting in the SE becoming a catch-all concept. Alternatively, it is often suggested to operation…
Why Do Poor People Not Take up Benefits? Evidence from the Barcelona's B-Mincome Experiment
Non-take-up, i.e. individuals not applying for a benefit they are eligible for, is a widespread problem limiting the reach of welfare and protection systems. This paper seeks to understand it by means of a theoretical framework comprising two levels of analysis: the claimants' individual characteristics in relation to the information barriers they face, and the administrative logic and functioning regarding the communications strategy used by pub…
Basic Income Experiments
Policy Details as a Plea for Basic Income Experiments
Amy Castro and Stacia West (2022), with whom I have had the opportunity to exchange ideas on these pages, defend the need to continue experimenting with cash transfer policies through new experiments or pilot projects such as the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) that they personally helped to design and evaluate. I agree with them. As I argued in my first contribution to this debate, I sincerely believe that experiments on uncon…
Between Epistemic Necessity and Political Utility
The idea that every member of society should be granted an individual, unconditional, and sufficient cash payment has attracted much attention over the last few years. Initially viewed merely as a utopian idea upheld by a handful of scholars, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is now considered a policy proposal with real chances of being implemented.1 Beyond academia, UBI is attracting the attention of politicians, policymakers, and the public in gene…
Radical Republicanism
Over the last two decades republican thought has attracted a growing interest from political, moral and legal scholars. These contemporary theoretical syntheses of ‘neo-republican’ thought have been closely related to intellectual history and the idea of recovering an overshadowed tradition of political thought. In this vein, a classical set of historical moments and places (e.g., ancient Rome, renaissance Italy, civil-war England or revolutionar…
Private, Public and Common
The conception of property is usually moulded upon diverting historical and political-philosophical frameworks. The current interest on the commons illustrates these divergences when they come up between a ‘pure’ public and a ‘pure’ private form of ownership. This conceptual triad misleads by conflating private property with an absolute property right while equating public property with a centralised political regime. This article traces the repu…
Del derecho natural al pacto fiduciario
El republicanismo cada vez suscita mayor atención por parte de la filosofía política. Sin embargo, a menudo se emplea una aproximación meramente hermenéutica que tiende a desatender las circunstancias políticas, sociales y económicas que, en efecto, dieron forma a esta tradición de pensamiento. Este artículo aborda la concepción moderna de la libertad republicana a través del caso norteamericano y francés mediante la obra de dos de sus máximos re…
Bienes comunes, nuevos cercamientos y economía política popular
Este artículo discute la creciente importancia que están adoptando los llamados bienes comunes en el ámbito de la creación cultural. Para ello se discuten críticamente dos importantes analogías que han emergido en los últimos años: la primera, entre los bienes comunes naturales y los digitales y la segunda, entre los viejos y los nuevos cercamientos digitales. El artículo demuestra que, si bien es cierto que ambas comparaciones deben abordarse co…
Between Epistemic Necessity and Political Utility
The idea that every member of society should be granted an individual, unconditional, and sufficient cash payment has attracted much attention over the last few years. Initially viewed merely as a utopian idea upheld by a handful of scholars, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is now considered a policy proposal with real chances of being implemented.1 Beyond academia, UBI is attracting the attention of politicians, policymakers, and the public in gene…
Why Do Poor People Not Take up Benefits? Evidence from the Barcelona's B-Mincome Experiment
Non-take-up, i.e. individuals not applying for a benefit they are eligible for, is a widespread problem limiting the reach of welfare and protection systems. This paper seeks to understand it by means of a theoretical framework comprising two levels of analysis: the claimants' individual characteristics in relation to the information barriers they face, and the administrative logic and functioning regarding the communications strategy used by pub…
Bienes comunes, nuevos cercamientos y economía política popular
Este artículo discute la creciente importancia que están adoptando los llamados bienes comunes en el ámbito de la creación cultural. Para ello se discuten críticamente dos importantes analogías que han emergido en los últimos años: la primera, entre los bienes comunes naturales y los digitales y la segunda, entre los viejos y los nuevos cercamientos digitales. El artículo demuestra que, si bien es cierto que ambas comparaciones deben abordarse co…
Del derecho natural al pacto fiduciario
El republicanismo cada vez suscita mayor atención por parte de la filosofía política. Sin embargo, a menudo se emplea una aproximación meramente hermenéutica que tiende a desatender las circunstancias políticas, sociales y económicas que, en efecto, dieron forma a esta tradición de pensamiento. Este artículo aborda la concepción moderna de la libertad republicana a través del caso norteamericano y francés mediante la obra de dos de sus máximos re…
Basic Income Experiments
Policy Details as a Plea for Basic Income Experiments
Amy Castro and Stacia West (2022), with whom I have had the opportunity to exchange ideas on these pages, defend the need to continue experimenting with cash transfer policies through new experiments or pilot projects such as the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) that they personally helped to design and evaluate. I agree with them. As I argued in my first contribution to this debate, I sincerely believe that experiments on uncon…
Between Epistemic Necessity and Political Utility
The idea that every member of society should be granted an individual, unconditional, and sufficient cash payment has attracted much attention over the last few years. Initially viewed merely as a utopian idea upheld by a handful of scholars, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is now considered a policy proposal with real chances of being implemented.1 Beyond academia, UBI is attracting the attention of politicians, policymakers, and the public in gene…
Radical Republicanism
Over the last two decades republican thought has attracted a growing interest from political, moral and legal scholars. These contemporary theoretical syntheses of ‘neo-republican’ thought have been closely related to intellectual history and the idea of recovering an overshadowed tradition of political thought. In this vein, a classical set of historical moments and places (e.g., ancient Rome, renaissance Italy, civil-war England or revolutionar…
Private, Public and Common
The conception of property is usually moulded upon diverting historical and political-philosophical frameworks. The current interest on the commons illustrates these divergences when they come up between a ‘pure’ public and a ‘pure’ private form of ownership. This conceptual triad misleads by conflating private property with an absolute property right while equating public property with a centralised political regime. This article traces the repu…
Addressing the Sharing Economy—Some (Potential) Inconsistencies of Its Emancipatory Defense
The sharing economy (SE) is a strongly contested idea, both conceptually and politically. This paper first explores multiple existing definitions, emphasizing the challenges in both conceptual and operational terms they usually entail. It is argued that most of the common definitions tend to exacerbate tensions between informativeness and veracity, resulting in the SE becoming a catch-all concept. Alternatively, it is often suggested to operation…
Why Do Poor People Not Take up Benefits? Evidence from the Barcelona's B-Mincome Experiment
Non-take-up, i.e. individuals not applying for a benefit they are eligible for, is a widespread problem limiting the reach of welfare and protection systems. This paper seeks to understand it by means of a theoretical framework comprising two levels of analysis: the claimants' individual characteristics in relation to the information barriers they face, and the administrative logic and functioning regarding the communications strategy used by pub…
Fiduciary-Republican Property
Can property ownership be essentially equated with the absolute and individual right to exclude others from a resource? By critically assessing this question, this article reconstructs the republican conception of property, explaining the way it was formerly shaped by the ancient natural law, and then by the Lockean tradition. Both intellectual and conceptual influences molded modern republican's property conception as a kind of fiduciary relatio…
American Republican Property and Its Global Constitutional Legacy
The republican conception of property developed during the American founding continues to shape contemporary legal and constitutional orders, yet its foundations and legacy remain underappreciated. This article reconstructs that tradition by showing that American republicanism understood property as a politically constituted, fiduciary entitlement oriented to public purposes. On this view, property emerges as a civil right grounded in the social …
Economics (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Law and economics (4 obras) · Basic income (3 obras) · Business (3 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Fiduciary (3 obras)