Exploring The Basic Income Guarantee

Author : Mark Walker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137471336
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Money for All written by Mark Walker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Money for All makes the case for a basic income guarantee of $10,000 per adult US citizen. The book shows that a basic income guarantee will increase gross national happiness and gross national freedom, while helping to mitigate some of the worst consequences of rising technological unemployment.

Author : R. Caputo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137045302
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Income Guarantee and Politics written by R. Caputo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting and timely collection brings together international and national scholars and advocates to provide historical overviews of efforts to pass basic income guarantee legislation in their respective countries and/or across regions of the globe.

Author : K. Widerquist
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137313099
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income written by K. Widerquist and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income argues that philosophers have focused too much on scalar freedom and proposes a theory of status freedom as effective control self-ownership: the power to have or refuse active cooperation with other willing people, or simply: freedom as the power to say no.

Author : Leah Hamilton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030371212
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare Doesn't Work written by Leah Hamilton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the incentives and effects of modern welfare policy, contrasted with outcomes of global basic income pilots in the past seventy years. The author contends that paternalistic and counterproductive eligibility rules in the modern American welfare state violate the human dignity of the poor and make it nearly impossible to escape the “poverty trap.” Furthermore, these types of restrictions are absent from expenditures aimed at middle and upper-income households such as mortgage interest deductions and tax-sheltered retirement accounts. Case examples from the author's years as a front-line social worker and interviews with basic income pilot recipients in Ontario, Canada, are woven throughout the book to better illustrate the effects of the current system and the hidden potential of more radical alternatives such as a universal basic income.

Author : Ugo Gentilini
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464815119
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Universal Basic Income written by Ugo Gentilini and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal basic income (UBI) is emerging as one of the most hotly debated issues in development and social protection policy. But what are the features of UBI? What is it meant to achieve? How do we know, and what don’t we know, about its performance? What does it take to implement it in practice? Drawing from global evidence, literature, and survey data, this volume provides a framework to elucidate issues and trade-offs in UBI with a view to help inform choices around its appropriateness and feasibility in different contexts. Specifically, the book examines how UBI differs from or complements other social assistance programs in terms of objectives, coverage, incidence, adequacy, incentives, effects on poverty and inequality, financing, political economy, and implementation. It also reviews past and current country experiences, surveys the full range of existing policy proposals, provides original results from micro†“tax benefit simulations, and sets out a range of considerations around the analytics and practice of UBI.

Author : Richard K. Caputo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030439046
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Activism and Basic Income Guarantee written by Richard K. Caputo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together international and national scholars and major activists leading or spearheading basic income guarantee political initiatives in their respective countries. Contributing authors address specific issues about major efforts to influence public policy regarding basic income guarantee, such as: who were the main advocates and thought leaders involved in support of such legislative initiatives; what were the main organizational and framing strategies and tactics used to influence public opinion and elected officials to support the idea of and policies related to basic income guarantee; what were the major obstacles they faced; and what practical and theoretical lessons might be learned from past and contemporary actions to affect social policy change regarding basic income guarantee and related measures to guide the efforts of activists and public intellectuals in the 2020 and 2024 election cycles.

Author : Karl Widerquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781137305008
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the basic income guarantee written by Karl Widerquist and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Sheahen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113703159X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Income Guarantee written by A. Sheahen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is the unconditional government-ensured guarantee that all citizens will have enough income to meet their basic needs without a work requirement. Significant questions include: Why should we adopt a BIG? Can the U.S. afford it? Why don't the current welfare programs work? Why not guarantee everyone a job? Would anyone work if his or her income were guaranteed? Has a BIG ever been tested? This book answers these questions and many more in simple, easy-to-understand language.

Author : G. Nell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137315938
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Income and the Free Market written by G. Nell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses whether the Basic Income Guarantee could offer an alternative to both laissez-faire and existing welfare systems in developed countries - often criticized by both advocates and critics of laissez-faire - thus opening a constructive dialog in policy discussion.

Author : Karl Widerquist
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030038491
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens written by Karl Widerquist and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Kenya. Several more countries are considering conducting experiments. Yet, there seems to be more interest simply in having UBI experiments than in exactly what we want to learn from them. Although experiments can produce a lot of relevant data about UBI, they are crucially limited in their ability to enlighten our understanding of the big questions that bear on the discussion of whether to implement UBI as a national or regional policy. And, past experience shows that results of UBI experiments are particularly vulnerable misunderstanding, sensationalism, and spin. This book examines the difficulties of conducting a UBI experiment and reporting the results in ways that successfully improve public understanding of the probable effects of a national UBI. The book makes recommendations how researchers, reporters, citizens, and policymakers can avoid these problems and get the most out of UBI experiments.