Overview
- Contains new chapters on peacebuilding, public health, pilot projects, and the history of basic income
- Presents a newly updated discussion of the important aspects of the Basic Income debate
- Assesses the effects of Basic Income schemes in five key areas
Part of the book series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)
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About this book
This handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines and from around the world to examine the history, characteristics, effects, viability and implementation of basic income.
The first edition of this book contributed a comprehensive treatment of multiple aspects of the basic income debate. This updated, expanded edition tackles new topics that are becoming increasingly prominent in the global debate. New chapters are devoted to recent research on the history of basic income; the development and peacemaking potential of basic income in conflict zones; municipal experiments in the United States; requirements for pilot projects and experiments; and the public health implications of basic income. Existing chapters on the implementation of basic income have also been substantially updated to take account of new research on microsimulation, land value tax, local currencies, and blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, along with new material on the increasing use ofopinion polls and the difficulties related to that. New political and ethical perspectives on the role of trade unions and their increasing engagement with the basic income debate are also introduced, while the section on pilot projects and experiments has been updated to cover recent political developments.Fully updated to reflect new global developments in the basic income debate, this handbook will be of interest to researchers, teachers and research-oriented policymakers in a range of fields.
Keywords
- Basic Income
- Basic Income scheme
- Political economy of Basic Income
- Economic ethics
- Transitional Basic Income
- Full Basic Income
- Partial Basic Income
- Negative Income Tax
- Global employment market
- Financial security
- Poverty and inequality
- Ecological economics
- Citizen’s Income
- Citizen’s Basic Income
- Universal Basic Income
- Universal Grant
- history of basic income
- basic income pilot projects
- labour income gap
- basic income and public health
Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introductory Chapters
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Some of the Likely Effects of Basic Income
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The Feasibility and Implementation of Basic Income
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Pilot Projects and Other Experiments
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Reviews
“I congratulate Malcolm Torry on this second edition of what clearly has proved to be an indispensable resource for anyone with any interest in the increasingly fast-moving debates around Basic Income and in the growing number of pilots and experiments that throw light on its potential but which, the editor explains, have to be understood in their context.” (—The Baroness Ruth Lister of Burtersett, Loughborough University, UK)
“A highly recommended and welcome second edition, taking account of new research and with new chapters and chapter sections. It provides an up-to-date Handbook for the growing number of researchers, policymakers and campaigners involved in a Basic Income global debate.” (—Rubén Lo Vuolo, Senior Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Public Policies, Argentina)
“This second edition of the Handbook captures the state-of-art in Basic Income debates around the world. It surveys the rapid growthof international interest and the spread of field experiments in Basic Income, and critically discusses the different dimensions of the concept. The chapter authors constitute an impressive list of leading scholars of Basic Income. It is a very valuable resource.” (—Nick Pearce, Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Professor of Public Policy, University of Bath, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Malcolm Torry is the Director of the Citizen’s Basic Income Trust and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His research interests include the reform of the benefits system, and particularly the Basic Income debate.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income
Editors: Malcolm Torry
Series Title: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41001-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41000-0Published: 21 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41003-1Published: 22 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41001-7Published: 20 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-3803
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3811
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XLVI, 629
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economy-wide Country Studies, Law and Economics, Environmental Economics, Political Economy/Economic Systems