TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parijs,Philippe Van
TI  - Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy 
SN  - 9780674978072
U1  - 362.582 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Distribution
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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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