Basic Income—What, Why, and How?

Aspects of the Global Basic Income Debate

AvMalcolm Torry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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The global Basic Income debate is now widespread, diverse, and relatively well resourced by academic and more popular literature: but that does not mean that there is universal agreement about every topic of discussion.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-26
Mått:148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt:583 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
Antal sidor:347
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031142475

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Malcolm Torry is a visiting fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath and a trustee and treasurer of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). He was previously the director of the Citizen’s Basic Income Trust and a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.

Innehållsförteckning

1.Basic Income: What, why, and how? Introductory chapter.- 2.Defining Basic Income.- 3. ‘Unconditional’ and ‘universal’.- 4. Basic Income and Basic Income schemes.- 5.Basic Income as the preserver and transformation of capitalism.- 6.The mode of delivery is important.- 7.Only for children?.- 8.Basic Income is feasible.- 9.Speenhamland is irrelevant.- 10.Testing different routes to a Basic Income.- 11.A Basic Income at the level of Minimum Income Standards?.- 12.What (if anything) can justify Basic Income pilot projects?.- 13.Factors influencing political decisions about social security benefits in the UK.- 14.Research and education in the UK debate.- 15.Political feasibility in the UK.- 16.Microsimulation research in the UK.- 17.What a Basic Income is, why it matters, and how it might come about.