The ethics and economics of the basic income guarantee /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot : Ashgate, c2005. |
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| Description: | xv, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Alternative voices in contemporary economics |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5788158 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword, Guy Standing
- Acknowledgments
- An introduction to the basic income guarantee
- History: In the shadow of Speenhamland: social policy and the Old Poor Law
- Inheritance and equal shares: Early American views
- The guaranteed income movement of the 1960s and 1970s
- A retrospective on the negative income tax experiments: looking back at the most innovate field studies in social policy
- Debate: Basic income in the United States: redefining citizenship in the Liberal State
- Basic income, liberal neutrality, socialism, and work
- Does she exploit or doesn't she?
- Perhaps there can be too much freedom
- Evidence: Income guarantees and the equity-efficiency tradeoff
- 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?
- Back to work incentives in a dynamic perspective: an-application to French labor markets
- Social minima in Europe: the risks of cumulating income-sources
- Proposals: The political economy of the basic income grant in South Africa
- The approval of the basic income guarantee in Brazil
- The basic income guarantee in Europe: The Belgian and Dutch back door strategies
- The cost of eliminating poverty in Canada: basic income with an income test twist
- Can a negative income tax system for the United Kingdom be both equitable and affordable?