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Basic Income : A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy / Philippe Van Parijs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) : 8 graphs, 1 tableContent type:
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  • 9780674978072
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.582
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. The Instrument of Freedom -- 2. Basic Income and Its Cousins -- 3. Prehistory: Public Assistance and Social Insurance -- 4. History: From Utopian Dream to Worldwide Movement -- 5. Ethically Justifiable? Free Riding Versus Fair Shares -- 6. Economically Sustainable? Funding, Experiments, and Transitions -- 7. Politically Achievable? Civil Society, Parties, and the Back Door -- 8. Viable in the Global Era? Multi-Level Basic Income -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Providing a basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, was advocated by Paine, Mill, and Galbraith but the idea was never taken seriously. Today, with the welfare state creaking, it is one of the world’s most widely debated proposals. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present a comprehensive defense of this radical idea.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. The Instrument of Freedom -- 2. Basic Income and Its Cousins -- 3. Prehistory: Public Assistance and Social Insurance -- 4. History: From Utopian Dream to Worldwide Movement -- 5. Ethically Justifiable? Free Riding Versus Fair Shares -- 6. Economically Sustainable? Funding, Experiments, and Transitions -- 7. Politically Achievable? Civil Society, Parties, and the Back Door -- 8. Viable in the Global Era? Multi-Level Basic Income -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Providing a basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, was advocated by Paine, Mill, and Galbraith but the idea was never taken seriously. Today, with the welfare state creaking, it is one of the world’s most widely debated proposals. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present a comprehensive defense of this radical idea.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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