The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee 9781315239934, 9780754641889

Governments in the US, the UK and other nations around the world routinely consider and, in some cases, experiment with

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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 An Introduction to the Basic Income Guarantee
PART ONE: HISTORY
2 In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law
3 Inheritance and Equal Shares: Early American Views
4 The Guaranteed Income Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
5 A Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments: Looking Back at the Most Innovate Field Studies in Social Policy
PART TWO: DEBATE
6 Basic Income in the United States: Redefining Citizenship in the Liberal State
7 Basic Income, Liberal Neutrality, Socialism, and Work
8 Does She Exploit or Doesn't She? 13
9 Perhaps There Can Be Too Much Freedom
PART THREE: EVIDENCE
10 Income Guarantees and the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff
11 Have the 1996 Welfare Reforms and Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit Eliminated the Need for a Basic Income Guarantee in the United States?
12 Back to Work Incentives in a Dynamic Perspective: An Application to French Labor Markets
13 Social Minima in Europe: The Risks of Cumulating Income-Sources
PART FOUR: PROPOSALS
14 The Political Economy of the Basic Income Grant in South Africa
15 The Approval of the Basic Income Guarantee in Brazil
16 The Basic Income Guarantee in Europe: The Belgian and Dutch Back Door Strategies
17 The Cost of Eliminating Poverty in Canada: Basic Income With an Income Test Twist
18 Can a Negative Income Tax System for the United Kingdom be Both Equitable and Affordable?
Index

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