The Ethics And Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee

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ISBN: 9780754641889 | 0754641880
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Copyright: 10/28/2005

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The basic income guarantee, a universal unconditional income grant, has received increasing attention from scholars as an alternative to the kinds of reforms that have been implemented. This book explores the political, sociological, economic, and philosophical issues of the basic income guarantee.

List of Figures

vii

List of Tables

viii

List of Contributors

Foreword

xiii

Guy Standing

Acknowledgments

xvi

An Introduction to the Basic Income Guarantee

(12)

Michael Anthony Lewis

Steven Pressman

Karl Widerquist

PART ONE: HISTORY

In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law

(42)

Fred Block

Margaret Somers

Inheritance and Equal Shares: Early American Views

(22)

John Cunliffe

Guido Erreygers

The Guaranteed Income Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

(18)

Robert Harris

A Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments: Looking Back at the Most Innovate Field Studies in Social Policy

(14)

Robert A. Levine

Harold Watts

Robinson Hollister

Walter Williams

Alice O'Connor

Karl Widerquist

PART TWO: DEBATE

Basic Income in the United States: Redefining Citizenship in the Liberal State

109

(13)

Almaz Zelleke

Basic Income, Liberal Neutrality, Socialism, and Work

122

(16)

Michael W. Howard

Does She Exploit or Doesn't She?

138

(12)

Karl Widerquist

Perhaps There Can Be Too Much Freedom

150

(13)

Michael Anthony Lewis

PART THREE: EVIDENCE

Income Guarantees and the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff

163

(20)

Steven Pressman

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?

183

(15)

James B. Bryan

Back to Work Incentives in a Dynamic Perspective: An Application to French Labor Markets

198

(14)

Thierry Laurent

Yannick L'Horty

Social Minima in Europe: The Risks of Cumulating Income-Sources

212

(23)

Stephen Bouquin

PART FOUR: PROPOSALS

The Political Economy of the Basic Income Grant in South Africa

235

(14)

Nicoli Nattrass

Jeremy Seekings

The Approval of the Basic Income Guarantee in Brazil

249

(8)

Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy

The Basic Income Guarantee in Europe: The Belgian and Dutch Back Door Strategies

257

(25)

Yannick Vanderborght

The Cost of Eliminating Poverty in Canada: Basic Income With an Income Test Twist

282

(11)

Derek Hum

Wayne Simpson

Can a Negative Income Tax System for the United Kingdom be Both Equitable and Affordable?

293

(24)

Randall Bartlett

James Davies

Michael Hoy

Index

317

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