Basic income: a radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy Parijs, Philippe Van

By:

Parijs, Philippe Van

Contributor(s):

Vanderborght, Yannick

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Harvard University Press 2017 CambridgeDescription: 383 pISBN:

9780674052284

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DDC classification:

362.582 P2B2

Summary: It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to every individual, rich or poor, active or inactive, has been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. For a long time, it was hardly noticed and never taken seriously. Today, with the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, it has become one of the most widely debated social policy proposals in the world. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present the most comprehensive defense of this radical idea so far, advocating it as our most realistic hope for addressing economic insecurity and social exclusion in the twenty-first century. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674052284

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Table of Contents:

1. The Instrument of Freedom
2. Basic Income and Its Cousins
3. Prehistory: Public Assistance and Social Insurance
4. History: From Utopian Dream to Worldwide Movement
5. Ethically Justifiable? Free Riding Versus Fair Shares
6. Economically Sustainable? Funding, Experiments, and Transitions
7. Politically Achievable? Civil Society, Parties, and the Back Door
8. Viable in the Global Era? Multi-Level Basic Income

It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to every individual, rich or poor, active or inactive, has been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. For a long time, it was hardly noticed and never taken seriously. Today, with the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, it has become one of the most widely debated social policy proposals in the world. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present the most comprehensive defense of this radical idea so far, advocating it as our most realistic hope for addressing economic insecurity and social exclusion in the twenty-first century.

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