Money for Everyone: Why We Need a Citizen's Income - Softcover

Torry, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447311256 ISBN 13: 9781447311256

Publisher: Policy Press, 2013

Synopsis

Defining a citizen’s income as a basic financial provision to which all citizens should have an unconditional right, Malcolm Torry examines its potential social and economic advantages in a British context. He argues that the establishment of a citizen’s income would reduce inequality; enhance individual freedom; improve social cohesion, family life, the economy, and the employment market; and be simple and inexpensive to administer. Informed by a comparative analysis of other countries’ approaches to poverty and inequality, Money for Everyone makes a valuable and timely contribution to current debates about the United Kingdom’s public benefits system.

About this title

About the Author:

Malcolm Torry is director of the Citizen’s Income Trust.

Review:

"Citizen's Income is a big idea whose time might at last have come. Malcolm Torry's book could play a part in making that happen. Everyone should read it."

(Hartley Dean, London School of Economics)

“Comprehensive and persuasive, this book debunks the current orthodoxies on welfare reform, and sets out a radical alternative to coercion and 'targeting'—a universal, unconditional, non-withdrawable payment for every citizen.” Bill Jordan, Plymouth University

(Bill Jordan, Plymouth University)

“Torry’s very thorough presentation is worthy of the LSE tradition to which it belongs.” (Liberal Democratic Voice)

“Provides a wide ranging but general introduction for those who are new to the subject, while offering those with more familiarity a useful compendium of recent literatures and debates.” (Social Policy & Administration)

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1447311256
• ISBN 13: 9781447311256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304