ISBN:
9780230285422
Language:
English
Pages:
ca. 288 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
International political economy series
Parallel Title:
Print version Basic Income Worldwide : Horizons of Reform
Keywords:
Political economy
;
Economic policy
;
Labor economics
;
Development economics
;
Economic development
Abstract:
In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity. This is the first book to discuss existing at examples of basic income, in both rich and poor countries, and to consider its prospects in other places around the world
Abstract:
In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity. This is the first book to discuss existing at examples of basic income, in both rich and poor countries, and to consider its prospects in other places around the world
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; I.1 What form should the payment take?; I.2 At what level should the income be paid?; I.3 Should the income be paid unconditionally?; I.4 Should the income be universal, paid to all citizens in a country, or should it be targeted to a particular section of the population?; I.5 Can basic income be afforded? And how is it to be funded?; Part I Experiments; 1 The United States: The Basic Income Guarantee - Past Experience, Current Proposals
Description / Table of Contents:
1.1 Alaska's permanent fund dividend1.2 The guaranteed income movement of the 1960s and 1970s; 1.3 From the family assistance plan to temporary assistance for needy families; 1.4 Offshoots of the guaranteed income movement; 1.5 The negative income tax experiments; 1.6 The standard tax credit proposal and the current discussion of the basic income guarantee in the United States; 1.7 The background of the standard tax credit proposal; 1.8 The proposal; 1.9 Why we need the STC; 1.10 Response to the standard tax credit proposal; 1.11 Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
2 Namibia: Seeing the Sun Rise - The Realities and Hopes of the Basic Income Grant Pilot Project2.1 History of the BIG coalition and reasons for the pilot project; 2.2 The dawn of economic security for all - results from the pilot project; 2.3 Will a national BIG in Namibia see the light of; 3 Brazil: Basic Income - A New Model of Innovation Diffusion; 3.1 The debate in Brazil: main actors, arenas and political strategies; 3.2 The victory of the political entrepreneurs: minimum income at the federal capital and in the city of Campinas
Description / Table of Contents:
3.3 An increasing political competition: from municipal to state diffusion3.4 The federal government enters the scene: the creation of the first national programmes; 3.5 The competitive adherence of the municipalities to the federal programmes; 3.6 Minimum income in Brazil: a brief description of the programmes of the federal government; 3.7 Conclusion; 4 Canada: The Case for Basic Income; 4.1 Welfare, welfare reform and a guaranteed income; 4.2 The Royal Commission on the Economic Union and development prospects for Canada; 4.3 Reconsidering Dauphin; 4.4 Conclusion; Part II Proposals
Description / Table of Contents:
5 East Timor and Catalonia: Basic Income - Proposals for North and South5.1 Freedom and material independence; 5.2 Basic income and freedom in North and South; 5.3 Financing freedom in North and South: basic income in Catalonia and East Timor; 5.4 Basic income in Catalonia: simulating a financial model; 5.5 Basic income in East Timor: guidelines for a financial model; 5.6 Conclusion; 6 South Africa: The Continuing Politics of Basic Income Jeremy Seekings and Heidi Matisonn; 6.1 Expansion without restructuring: welfare reform, 1994-2002; 6.2 The Basic Income Grant and its critics
Description / Table of Contents:
6.3 Parametric reforms as an alternative to a Basic Income Grant, 2002-10
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1057/9781137265227
URN:
10.1057/9781137265227
URL:
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