• Offers a comprehensive discussion of the important aspects of the Basic Income debate for academics, policymakers and interested individuals
• Assesses the effects of Basic Income schemes in 5 key areas: employment market effects, social effects, economic effects, ecological effects and gender effects

• Presents an international range of pilot projects and experiments

• Expanded second edition reflects new prominent research topics, from peacebuilding to public health

  Contains new chapters on peacebuilding, public health, pilot projects, and the history of basic income Presents a newly updated discussion of the important aspects of the Basic Income debate Assesses the effects of Basic Income schemes in five key areas

  Autorentext

  Malcolm Torry is the Director of the Citizen s Basic Income Trust and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His research interests include the reform of the benefits system, and particularly the Basic Income debate.

  Inhalt

Part I: Introductory chapters.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The definition and characteristics of Basic Income.- Chapter 3: A short history of the Basic Income idea.- Part II: Some of the likely effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 4: Employment market effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 5: Social effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 6: The health case for Basic Income.- Chapter 7: Some effects of Basic Income on economic variables.- Chapter 8: Ecological effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 9: The gender effects of a Basic Income.- Chapter 10: Basic Income for development and peacebuilding in post-conflict settings.- Part III: The feasibility and implementation of Basic Income.- Chapter 11: Feasibility and implementation.- Chapter 12: Alternative funding methods.- Chapter 13: Analysis of the financial effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 14: Public opinion on Basic Income: What have we learnt so far?.-Chapter 15: Alternatives to Basic Income.- Part IV: Pilot projects and other experiments.- Chapter 16: The Negative Income Tax experiments of the 1970s.- Chapter 17: Citizen's Basic Income in Brazil: The reality of pilot experiences.- Chapter 18: Basic Income by default: Lessons from Iran's 'cash subsidy' programme.- Chapter 19: The Namibian Basic Income Grant Pilot.- Chapter 20: Pilots, evidence, and politics: The Basic Income debate in India.- Chapter 21: A primer on the Finnish Basic Income experiment: From design and implementation to evaluation and impact.- Chapter 22: A variety of experiments.- Chapter 23: Current and recent Basic Income and Guaranteed Income pilots in the United States.- Chapter 24: Problems with pilot projects.- Part V: Political and ethical perspectives.- Chapter 25: Libertarian perspectives on Basic Income.- Chapter 26: Socialist arguments for Basic Income.- Chapter 27: Neither left nor right.- Chapter 28: Trade unions and Basic Income.- Chapter 29: The ethics of Basic Income.- Part VI: Concluding chapter.- Chapter 30: Tentative conclusions.