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Title It's basic income : the global debate / edited by Amy Downes, Stewart Lansley
Edition 1st
Published Bristol : Policy Press, 2018

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Description 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
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
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
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
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
Subject Basic income.
Welfare economics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy.
Basic income
Welfare economics
Experiment
Garantiertes Mindesteinkommen
Form Electronic book
Author Downes, Amy, editor
Lansley, Stewart, editor
ISBN 9781447343929
1447343921
9781447343912
1447343913
9781447343936
144734393X