Basic Income in Japan: Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 134947052X ISBN 13: 9781349470525

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Synopsis

Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program in the context of the country's changing welfare state. Vanderborght and Yamamori bring together over a dozen contributors to provide a general overview of the scholarly debate on universal and unconditional basic income, including a foreword by Ronald Dore. Drawing on empirical data on poverty and inequality as well as normative arguments, this balanced approach to a radical idea is essential reading for the study of contemporary Japan.

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Aya K. Abe, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan Ronald Dore, London School of Economics, UK Sakura Furukubo, Osaka City University, Japan Hiroya Hirano, Mejiro University, Japan Fumio Iida, Kobe University, Japan Yoshio Itaba , Doshisha University, Japan Kaori Katada, Hosei University, Japan Hayato Kobayashi, Nihon Fukushi University, Japan Shinji Murakami, Health Care Science Institute, Japan Julia Obinger, University of Zurich, Switzerland Yuki Sekine, Kobe University, Japan Takashi Suganuma, Rikkyo University, Japan Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Doshisha University, Japan Rie Takamatsu, Osaka University, Japan Yannick Vanderborght, Université Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium Toru Yamamori, Doshisha University, Japan Junko Yamashita, University of Bristol, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 134947052X
• ISBN 13: 9781349470525
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Vanderborght Y., Yamamori T.