Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy PDF
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BASIC INCOME BASIC INCOME A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS YANNICK VANDERBORGHT harvard university press Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts London, England 2017 Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing library of congress cataloging- in- publication data Names: Parijs, Philippe van, 1951– author. | Vanderborght, Yannick, author. Title: Basic income : a radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy / Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght. Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016045726 | ISBN 9780674052284 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Guaranteed annual income. | Public welfare. | Basic needs. | Economics— Sociological aspects. Classification: LCC HB846 .P37 2017 | DDC 362.5/82— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2016045726 For Sue and Greet Contents Prologue 1 1 The Instrument of Freedom 4 2 Basic Income and Its Cousins 29 3 P rehistory: Public Assistance and Social Insurance 51 4 History: From Utopian Dream to Worldwide Movement 70 5 Ethically Justifiable? Free Riding Versus Fair Shares 99 6 E co nom ically Sustainable? Funding, Experiments, and Transitions 133 7 P o liti cally Achievable? Civil Society, Parties, and the Back Door 170 8 V iable in the Global Era? Multi- Level Basic Income 216 Epilogue 245 notes 249 bibliography 325 acknowledgments 373 index 375 BASIC INCOME
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