Technological unemployment, basic income, and wellbeing. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Fabio D'Orlando.
• Authors: D'Orlando, Fabio, 1962-
• Contents: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. THREE WAVES OF TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT 1.1 The First Wave and the theory of compensation 1.2 The Second Wave and the rise of inequality 1.3 The Third Wave and the great decoupling 1.4 Is full unemployment a concrete possibility? 1.5 What will happen in the meantime? The road to full-unemployment equilibrium CHAPTER 2. POSSIBLE POLICY SOLUTIONS TO COUNTERACT THE RISE OF TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 2.1 Taxing robots, subsidizing human workers 2.2 Boosting education and/or professional training 2.3 Reducing per-capita working hours 2.4 Quotas… 2.5 …and the tradable permits approach 2.6 Employment Protection Legislation and Unemployment Benefits 2.7 Collectivizing firms (or similar policies) 2.8 Universal or Unconditional Basic Income CHAPTER 3. BASIC INCOME 3.1 Basic Income and its history 3.2 Basic Income as a welfare instrument 3.3 Basic income and labor supply 3.4 Basic Income as an instrument for counteracting technological unemployment 3.5 Creative work, prosocial behavior and Basic Income 3.6 Is Basic Income financially sustainable? CHAPTER 4. WELLBEING AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS 4.1 Behavioral Economics and Happiness Economics 4.2 Wellbeing and its causes 4.3 Behavioral Economics and theoretical tools to measure the impact of Basic Income on wellbeing 4.4 The dynamics of wellbeing over time CHAPTER 5. THE WELLBEING IMPACT OF AN UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME 5.1 Measuring the impact of technological unemployment on wellbeing 5.2 Measuring the impact of redistributive policies on wellbeing: the wellbeing impossibility theorem 5.3 The impact of Basic Income on wellbeing 5.4 Comparing Basic Income with conventional policy tools 5.5 Does Basic Income reduce wellbeing? CHAPTER 6. CONCLUDING REMARKS: AN ALTERNATIVE / COMPLEMENTARY POLICY PROPOSAL 6.1 Summing up: technological unemployment, Basic Income and wellbeing 6.2 Would a higher (and rising) Basic Income be the best solution? 6.3 An alternative/complementary policy proposal 6.4 Final considerations: employment or income?
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (176 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 339.2; Basic income; Unemployment insurance; Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on; Industry 4.0; Economic policy; Well-being; Economics -- Psychological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000937640; 9781000937572
• Related ISBNs: 9781032313931
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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