Overview
- Describes the promises and pitfalls of universal basic income
- Presents policies in clear, nonpartisan prose and with interesting illustrations
- Written in an engaging, debate-like format
Part of the book series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)
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This book presents the most compelling arguments for and against implementing a basic income guarantee today, in the voice of proponents and critics, in alternating chapters. Tables, figures, and pictures illustrate the key concepts and evidence, which include benefit cliffs and disincentive deserts, time series macroeconomic data, business, economic, and technological change (BETC), artificial intelligence and other general purpose technologies, along with advanced robotics, the environmental Kuznets Curve, income distributions, democracy, social justice, dependence, autonomy, and economic freedom. A neutral, non-partisan tone introduction defines UBI and covers the history of universal income plans, while the conclusion summarizes the main arguments for and against UBI before surveying alternative policies, including universal basic asset, credit, service, job, and training plans.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Robert E. Wright Ph.D. is a Senior Faculty Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) and the (co)author of 24 books on economic policy and history.
Aleksandra Przegalińska Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Vice-President of Kozminski University, Poland. Aleksandra is responsible for International Relations and ESR as well as Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Labour and Worklife Program. Aleksandra is the head of the Human-Machine Interaction Research Center at Kozminski University and the Leader of the AI in Management Program. Until recently, she conducted post-doctoral research at the Center for Collective Intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. She graduated from The New School for Social Research in New York. She is the co-author of Collaborative Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Debating Universal Basic Income
Book Subtitle: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives
Authors: Robert E. Wright, Aleksandra Przegalińska
Series Title: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17513-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17512-1Published: 13 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17515-2Published: 14 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17513-8Published: 12 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-3803
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 141
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Labor Economics, Artificial Intelligence