Financing Basic Income (eBook)

Addressing the Cost Objection

Richard Pereira (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XIII, 116 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-54268-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable. The contributors approach the topic from the perspectives of three different countries-Canada, Switzerland, and Australia-to overcome objections that a universal program to keep all citizens above the poverty line would be too expensive to implement. They assess the complex array of revenue sources that can make universal basic income feasible, from the underestimated value of public program redundancies to new and so far unaccounted publicly owned assets.

Richard Pereira is Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK, and was formerly an economist with the House of Commons in Canada. 

Contributors

Albert Jörimann, Basic Income Earth Network, Switzerland

Gary Flomenhoft, University of Vermont, USA; University of Queensland, Australia

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Richard Pereira2. Foundations for a Basic Income Guarantee: Affordability through Program Redundancies; Richard Pereira3. Cost Feasibility of Basic Income in Europe: A Financing Case Study from Switzerland; Albert Jörimann4. Building up BIG: Land Rent in Australia as a Significant Financing Source; Gary Flomenhoft5. Conclusion; Richard Pereira

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
• Reihe/Serie: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 116 p. 2 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: citizen's income • Income Support • Labor standards • public programs • welfare
• ISBN-10: 3-319-54268-0 / 3319542680
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-54268-3 / 9783319542683