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Subject(s)

• Basic income [Browse]
• Public welfare [Browse]
• Basic needs [Browse]

Author

• Vanderborght, Yannick [Browse]

Summary note

Providing a basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, was advocated by Paine, Mill, and Galbraith but the idea was never taken seriously. Today, with the welfare state creaking, it is one of the world's most widely debated proposals. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present a comprehensive defense of this radical idea.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Prologue
• 1. The Instrument of Freedom
• 2. Basic Income and Its Cousins
• 3. Prehistory: Public Assistance and Social Insurance
• 4. History: From Utopian Dream to Worldwide Movement
• 5. Ethically Justifiable? Free Riding Versus Fair Shares
• 6. Economically Sustainable? Funding, Experiments, and Transitions
• 7. Politically Achievable? Civil Society, Parties, and the Back Door
• 8. Viable in the Global Era? Multi-Level Basic Income
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index

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ISBN

• 0-674-97809-9
• 0-674-97807-2

OCLC

979560620

Doi

• 10.4159/9780674978072

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