Financing Basic Income: Addressing the Cost Objection (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee)

ISBN 10: 3319542672 / ISBN 13: 9783319542676

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Financing Basic Income: Addressing the Cost Objection (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319542672
• ISBN 13: 9783319542676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 408 grams

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Synopsis

This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable. The contributors approach the topic from the perspectives of three different countries―Canada, Switzerland, and Australia―to overcome objections that a universal program to keep all citizens above the poverty line would be too expensive to implement. They assess the complex array of revenue sources that can make universal basic income feasible, from the underestimated value of public program redundancies to new and so far unaccounted publicly owned assets.

About the Author

Richard Pereira is Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK, and was formerly an economist with the House of Commons in Canada. 

Contributors

Albert Jörimann, Basic Income Earth Network, Switzerland

Gary Flomenhoft, University of Vermont, USA; University of Queensland, Australia