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Marc Doussard, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Joe Chrisp - Cash in Hand, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Cash in Hand

Basic Income as Regional Policy

Av Marc Doussard, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Joe Chrisp

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Poor places pose one of the great policy problems of our time. Termedleft-behind places by geographers, regions such as the North of England, theUS Rustbelt and Hauts-de-France have resisted decades of policies designedto reinvigorate their economies. From deepening economic precarity to fallinglifespans to political backlash, the costs are massive and growing.This book investigates a novel solution to the problem: universal basic income.Since the Global Financial Crisis, basic income has gained traction as a way toremake national social protection to better provide security. Yet basic incomealso fi ts the bill for regional policy. In the regional policy world, the long-termfailure of regeneration schemes focused on manufacturing and innovation hasled to a focus on endogenous development: Regional dynamism achieved bymaximizing the talents and contributions of existing residents. The fi t betweenbasic income and this agenda is more than aspirational. Worldwide, regionsand municipalities are leading the way in experimenting with basic income andother unconditional cash transfers.Cash in Hand systematically investigates the case for basic income as regionalpolicy. We start by examining the problems of ‘left-behind’ places and thecomplicating challenge of economic precarity. We then survey the growth andpopularity of basic income, and systematically evaluate the large corpus ofevidence from basic income trials. The book concludes by examining politicalpathways to establishing basic income as policy innovation for left-behindplaces. The audience for these questions is broad. It includes municipal,regional and national policymakers; scholars of society and economy; socialprotection experts; third-sector and advocacy organizations; and anybodyinterested in building economies that work for all.
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Marc Doussard is Professor and Head of Urban and Regional Planning at the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign. For 25 years, he has published on low-wage work, inequalityand cities’ search for solutions to these problems. His current research includes basicincome and the politics of inequality in cities. mdouss1@illinois.edu. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9355-9361.Jurgen De Wispelaere is a former occupational therapist turned political theorist and policyscholar. He is a Docent in the Philosophy of Social Policy at Tampere University and the projectlead of UBIdata (https://ubidata.io). Most recently he was an IPR Policy Fellow at the Universityof Bath and a Visiting Professor at the University of Freiburg. He has published extensively onthe politics of basic income. His current research focus is on exploring the emergence andspread of municipal basic income schemes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jurgen.dewispelaere@gmail.com. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-772X.Joe Chrisp is a Lecturer at the University of Bath. He co-leads UBI Bath (https://ubibath.ac.uk/)and is the data extraction lead of UBIdata (https://ubidata.io). After completing his PhD onthe political economy of basic income in 2020, he has worked as a post-doc at the Universityof Bergen and University of Bath. He currently works with the Institute for Policy Researchand the Brunel Centre. His research has typically focused on interrogating the political andpolicy consequences of UBI as a policy proposal. jmc235@bath.ac.uk. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6980-7537.

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Given that regional policy has fallen well short of its promise to reverse economic decline and alleviate entrenched inequalities, new approaches are needed. Cash in Hand responds by placing basic income at the center of a policy agenda for the twenty-fi rst century. Original and timely, it off ers a compelling vision of how income security can underpin more inclusive and resilient regional economies.Nik Theodore, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois ChicagoCash in Hand reframes basic income in a way that policymakers have largely missed: as a pragmatic response to the instability that undermines regional economies. Drawing on a wide range of trials and policy debates, it off ers a lucid and persuasive assessment of both the promise and the limits of unconditional cash as a foundation for development.Evelyn Forget, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Community Health Sciences, University of ManitobaFrom three leading international experts of the policy and politics of basic income, Cash in Hand breaks new ground connecting basic income to spatial inequality. And it does so in a remarkably accessible way. For those that care about ‘left behind places’ and those that care about making basic income a policy reality this is essential reading.Ben Spies-Butcher, Co-Director of the Australia Basic Income LabDoussard, De Wispelaere and Chrisp’s Cash in Hand provides a vital and overdue contribution to the ongoing search for remedies to the entrenched problem of regional inequality and left-behind places which has confounded regional policy for decades. Based on a timely survey of basic income pilots in a regional context, this book highlights the scope for basic income to act as a underwriter for regional policy, helping other programs to work more eff ectively by easing precarity and supporting livelihoods.Danny MacKinnon, Professor of Regional Development and Governance, University of NewcastleThis incredible book provides the reader with great arguments how the basic income can be a good solution for regional development, which we already see playing out in the municipalities of Maricá and Niterói in Brazil.Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy, State Representative for São Paulo, Brazil

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