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1 online resource (xix, 225 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Intro; Its basic income; Contents; The contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The fourth wave; The contributions; Part 1. The case for; 1. As artificial intelligence and robotics advance, a basic income may bethe only viable solution; 2. Could a universal basic income become the basis for working better in afast-changing world?; The empowerment effect: UBI would make people flourish; The numbers: the programme can be affordable; Different value systems and looking ahead; 3 An economic shock absorber; Can it help?; Is it a perfect cure-all?; A cushion for future shocks |
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4 Questioning the 'natural order'5. To keep music alive; 6. Feminist reflections on basic income; Feminist debates on the benefits of basic income; Basic income together with equality policy measures; Citizenship, democracy, basic income and feminism; 7. Women, motherhood and care; 8. My own private basic income; The joy of options; And the power of ownership; Making private basic incomes universal; 9. Coming off the fence on universal basic income; PART 2. Towards tomorrow's society; 10. A new politics; 11 Universal basic income for the post-industrial age |
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Basic income and four reasons to fear the futureTo understand the present, we must understand the past; Capacity to produce in the 21st century; 12. A down payment on a new, cooperative economy; 13. Basic income: a solution to which challenge?; What's in a name?; A new social contract?; 14. What we talk about when we talk about work; 15. It's time to stop tinkering; 16. How I learnt to stop worrying and love basic income; 17. Trust trumps control; PART 3. DISSENTING VOICES; 18. Why basic income can never be a progressive solution; Re-thinking social protection |
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19. Basic income: a powerful tax engine pulling a tiny cart20. A basic income and the democratisation of social policy; 21. Why a basic income is not good enough; Reparations and the cow; 22. Unconditional basic income is a dead end; PART 4. Building for change; 23. Basic income and social democracy; 24. History and the contemporary debate in the UK; The importance of definition; The history of the debate in the UK; 25. Basic income and the democratisation of development in Europe; 26, part 1. The Indian experience:the debt trap and unconditional basic income; Debt trap |
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Unconditional basic income26, part 2. The Indian experience:the impact of universal basic incomeon women and girls; 27. A Scottish pilot; 28. The libertarian case for universal basic income; 29. For us all: redesigning social security for the 2020s; 30. Making universal basic income work: the incremental approach; An incremental approach; Incrementalism; PART 5. The year odf the trials; 31. An earthquake in Finland; How to generate an earthquake; The spectre of labourism; 32. Growing a movement: the Canadian context; A health imperative; The provinces show the way; The federal level |
Summary |
Contributors including Brian Eno, Demos Helsinki, California's Y Combinator Research and prominent academics explore the impact Universal Basic Income could have on work, welfare and inequality in the 21st century |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Basic income.
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Welfare economics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy.
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Basic income
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Welfare economics
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Experiment
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Garantiertes Mindesteinkommen
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Electronic book
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Author |
Downes, Amy, editor
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Lansley, Stewart, editor
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ISBN |
9781447343929 |
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1447343921 |
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9781447343912 |
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1447343913 |
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9781447343936 |
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144734393X |
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