The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Torry, Malcolm

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

• Offers a comprehensive discussion of all the important aspects of the Basic Income debate for academics, policymakers and interested individuals
• Compares Pilot Projects and Basic Income experiments across the world, addressing case studies from Canada and the USA, Brazil, Iran, Namibia, India, Switzerland, Finland and The Netherlands
• Assesses the differing effects of Basic Income schemes and Basic Income in 5 key areas: employment market effects, social effects, economic effects, ecological effects and gender effects

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030236144
• Artikelnr.: 57817189

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introductory chapters.- Chapter 1: Introduction; Malcolm Torry.- Chapter 2: The definition and characteristics of Basic Income; Malcolm Torry.- Chapter 3: Three waves of Basic Income support; Karl Widerquist.- Part II: Some of the likely effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 4: Employment market effects of Basic Income; Richard Gilbert, Ursula Huws, Gunmin Yi.- Chapter 5: Social effects of Basic Income; Jenni Mays.- Chapter 6: Some effects of Basic Income on economic variables; Meghnad Desai, Ana Helena Palermo.- Chapter 7: Ecological Effects of Basic Income; Michael W. Howard, Jorge Pinto, Ulrich Schachtschneider.- Chapter 8 : The gender effects of a Basic Income; Annie Miller, Toru Yamamori, Almaz Zelleke.- Part III: The feasibility and implementation of Basic Income.-Chapter 9: The feasibility and implementation of Basic Income; Malcolm Torry.- Chapter 10: Alternative funding methods; Julio Andrade, Geoff Crocker, Stewart Lansley.- Chapter 11: Analysis of the financial effects of Basic Income; Gareth Morgan, Howard Reed, Malcolm Torry.- Chapter 12: Alternatives to Basic Income; Benjamin Leff, Andrew Percy, Michael Story, Maciej Szlinder.- Chapter 13: Framing Basic Income: Comparing media framing of Basic Income in Canada, Finland, and Spain; Johanna Perkiö, Leire Rincon, Jenna van Draanen.- Chapter 14: The Philosophy and Political Economy of Basic Income Revisited; Louise Haagh.- Part IV: Pilot projects and other experiments.- Chapter 15: The Negative Income Tax experiments of the 1970s; Karl Widerquist.- Chapter 16: Citizen's Basic Income in Brazil: From Bolsa Família to pilot experiments; Valéria Ferreira Santos de Almada Lima, Maria Ozanira da Silva e Silva.- Chapter 17: Basic Income by default: Lessons from Iran's 'cash subsidy' programme; Massoud Karshenas, Hamid Tabatabai.- Chapter 18: The Namibian Basic Income Grant Pilot; Claudia, Dirk Haarmann, Nicoli Nattrass.- Chapter 19: Pilots, evidence and politics: The Basic Income debate in India; Sarath Davala.- Chapter 20: The Finnish Basic Income experiment: A primer; Jurgen De Wispelaere, Antti Halmetoja, Ville-Veikko Pulkka.- Chapter 21: A variety of experiments; Julen Bollain, Loek Groot, Annie Miller, Enno Schmidt, Enkeleida Tahiraj, Timo Verlaat, Gunmin Yi.- Part V: Political and ethical perspectives.- Chapter 22: Libertarian perspectives on Basic Income; Miranda Perry Fleischer, Otto Lehto.- Chapter 23: Socialist arguments for Basic Income; David Casassas, Daniel Raventós, Maciej Szlinder.- Chapter 24: Neither left nor right; Joe Chrisp Luke Martinelli.- Chapter 25: Trade Unions and Basic Income; Troy Henderson, John Quiggin.- Chapter 26: The ethics of Basic Income; Simon Birnbaum.- Part VI: Concluding chapter.- Chapter 27: Tentative conclusions; Malcolm Torry.