Basic income : a guide for the open-minded / Guy Standing.
Standing, Guy, author.
2017
HC79.I5 S75 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Basic income : a guide for the open-minded / Guy Standing.
Author Standing, Guy, author.
ISBN 9780300230840 (hardcover)
0300230842 (hardcover)
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2017.
Language English
Description xiii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Call Number HC79.I5 S75 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.2/36
Summary "Basic income is a revolutionary idea that guarantees regular, unconditional cash transfers from the government to all citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed by only a few and would rectify the recent breakdown in income distribution. Political parties across the world are now adopting this innovative policy and the idea generates headlines every day. Guy Standing has been at the forefront of thought surrounding basic income for the past thirty years, and in this book he covers in authoritative detail its effects on the economy, poverty, work, and labor; dissects and disproves the standard arguments against basic income; explains what we can learn from pilots across the world; and illustrates exactly why basic income has now become such an urgent necessity"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index.
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Basic income : its meaning and historical origins
Basic income as social justice
Basic income and freedom
Reducing poverty, inequality and insecurity
The economic arguments
The standard objections
The affordability issue
The implications for work and labour
The alternatives
Basic income and development
Basic income initiatives and pilots
The political challenge : how to get there from here
Appendix: How to run a basic income pilot
List of BIEN-affiliated organizations.

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