Overview
- Offers a comprehensive discussion of all the important aspects of the Basic Income debate for academics, policymakers and interested individuals
- Compares Pilot Projects and Basic Income experiments across the world, addressing case studies from Canada and the USA, Brazil, Iran, Namibia, India, Switzerland, Finland and The Netherlands
- Assesses the differing effects of Basic Income schemes and Basic Income in 5 key areas: employment market effects, social effects, economic effects, ecological effects and gender effects
Part of the book series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)
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“This Handbook offers a timely ‘snapshot’ of the fast-moving global debates on Basic Income. Embracing a range of ideological, ethical, historical and cross-national perspectives, it looks at the case for Basic Income through both a focused and a wide-angled lens. Rather than asserting hard and fast conclusions, it ends with the valuable message that context is all.”
—Ruth Lister, Loughborough University, UK
“A must-read Handbook that provides solid foundations for the growing number of researchers, policymakers and campaigners involved in the ongoing debate on Basic Income."
—Rubén M. Lo Vuolo, the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Public Policy, Argentina
—Philippe Van Parijs, the University of Louvain, Belgium
A Basic Incomeis an unconditional regular payment for every individual. But is it desirable? And is it feasible? 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. A variety of pilot projects and ideological perspectives are considered in depth.
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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
- Financial Economics
- Global employment market
- Financial security
- Poverty and inequality
- Ecological economics
- Citizen’s Income
- Citizen’s Basic Income
- Universal Basic Income
- Universal Grant
Table of contents (27 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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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/10.1007/978-3-030-23614-4
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 licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23614-4Published: 27 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-3803
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVIII, 560
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economy-wide Country Studies, Law and Economics, Environmental Economics, Gender and Economics