The ethics and economics of the basic income guarantee. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Karl Widerquist, Michael Anthony Lewis, Steven Pressman.
• Other Names: Widerquist, Karl; Lewis, Michael Anthony, 1965-; Pressman, Steven, 1952-; U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network., Congress, (1st) 2002 (New York, N.Y.)
• Contents: Foreword / Guy Standing -- 1. An introduction to the basic income guarantee / Michael Anthony Lewis, Steven Pressman and Karl Widerquist -- 2. In the shadow of Speenhamland : social policy and the old poor law / Fred Block and Margaret Somers -- 3. Inheritance and equal shares : early American views / John Cunliffe and Guido Erreygers -- 4. The guaranteed income movement of the 1960s and 1970s / Robert Harris -- 5. A retrospective on the negative income tax experiments : looking back at the most innovate field studies in social policy / Robert A. Levine, Harold Watts, Robinson Hollister, Walter Williams, Alice O'Connor and Karl Widerquist -- 6. Basic income in the United States : redefining citizenship in the liberal state / Almaz Zelleke -- 7. Basic income, liberal neutrality, socialism, and work / Michael W. Howard -- 8. Does she exploit or doesn't she? / Karl Widerquist -- 9. Perhaps there can be too much freedom / Michael Anthony Lewis -- 10. Income guarantees and the equity-efficiency tradeoff / Steven Pressman -- 11. Have the 1996 welfare reforms and expansion of the earned income tax credit eliminated the need for a basic income guarantee in the United States? / James B. Bryan -- 12. Back to work incentives in a dynamic perspective : an application to French labor markets / Thierry Laurent and Yannick L'Horty -- 13. Social minima in Europe : the risks of cumulating income-sources / Stephen Bouquin -- 14. The political economy of the basic income grant in South Africa / Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings -- 15. The approval of the basic income guarantee in Brazil / Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy -- 16. The basic income guarantee in Europe : the Belgian and Dutch back door strategies / Yannick Vanderborght -- 17. The cost of eliminating poverty in Canada : basic income with an income test twist / Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson -- 18. Can a negative income tax system for the United Kingdom be both equitable and affordable? / Randall Bartlett, James Davies and Michael Hoy.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Subjects: 331.2/36; Guaranteed annual income -- Congresses; Income maintenance programs -- Congresses; Employment subsidies -- Congresses; Employment subsidies; Guaranteed annual income; Income maintenance programs; Basisinkomen; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351890533; 1351890530
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