| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 322 pages) |
| Series |
Exploring the basic income guarantee |
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Exploring the basic income guarantee.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Hopes and Realities of Adopting Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee Schemes / Richard K Caputo -- On the Political Feasibility of the Basic Income Guarantee: Theoretical Considerations / Jurgen De Wispelaere and Jose Antonio Noguera -- PART I: HOPES. The Best Income Transfer Program for Modern Economies / Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy -- An Anniversary Note : BIEN's 25th Guy Standing -- Section Two: REALITIES. European Union Countries -- Finland: Institutional Resistance of the Welfare State against a Basic Income / Markku Ikkala -- Germany: Far, though close: Problems and Prospects of BI in Germany / Sascha Liebermann -- Ireland: Pathways to a Basic Income in Ireland / Sen Healy and Brigid Reynolds -- Netherlands: Final piece of the welfare state is still to come / Michiel van Hasslet -- Spain: Basic Income from Social Movements to Parliament and Back Again / Daniel Ravent̤s, Julie Wark, and David Casassas -- PART II: OTHER OECD COUNTRIES. Australia: Will Basic Income Have a Second Coming? / John Tomlinson -- Canada: A Guaranteed Income Framework to Address Poverty and Inequality? / James P. Mulvale and Yannick Vanderborght -- Japan: Political Change after the Economic Crisis Introduces Universalist Benefit / Toru Yamamori -- Mexico: The First Steps toward Basic Income / Pablo Yanes -- United Kingdom: Only for Children? / Malcolm Torry -- United States of America / Richard K Caputo -- PART III: OTHER COUNTRIES. Iran: A Bumpy Road toward Basic Income / Hamid Tabatabai |
| Summary |
This volume will bring together international and national scholars and activists to provide historical overviews of the main efforts to date to pass unconditional basic income guarantee legislation in their respective countries and/or across regions of the globe. Each contributing author will be asked to address a specific set of issues or substantive content. Such issues will include who are or were the main people and groups involved in support or against such legislative efforts, what are or were the main theoretical and pragmatic reasons for the success or failure of BIG-related initiatives to date, what legislative alternatives compete with BIG for political favor, what if any relationship is there between a country's level of economic development and factors affecting the legislative fate of BIG measures, what the prospects are for the future. Ideally, each contribution or chapter would be country or region specific, although several contributors will make international or cross-country comparisons. A concluding chapter will identify commonalities and differences across countries and possibly regions to the extent contributing sufficiently address a common set of question as suggested above and it will draw lessons for advancing social policies in general and BIG policies in particular |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Basic income.
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Income maintenance programs.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Basic income
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Income maintenance programs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Caputo, Richard K.
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| ISBN |
9781137045300 |
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1137045302 |
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