Discretionary time: A new measure of freedom

摘要

Discretionary time casts new light upon time as a candidate for the "appropriate currency of egalitarian justice". Time - the authors claim -has "some very special properties" that make its candidature particularly palatable: it is inherently egalitarian, it is inherently scarce and it is a necessary input to any human activity. Whoever is interested in egalitarian justice, then, should also be interested in making time the equalisandum.