Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income, Part II
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Widerquist, Karl
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This article literary appraises books related to guaranteed income. The books are: "Freedom and Security: An introduction to the Basic income Debate," by Tony Fitzpatrick; Basic income: Economic Security for All Canadians," by Sally Lerner, Charles M.A. Clark, and W. Robert Needham; "The Stakeholder Society," by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott; "Socioeconomic Democracy: An Advanced Socioeconomic System," by Robley E. George; "Stumbling Towards Basic income: The Politics for Tax-Benefit Integration," by Bill Jordan, Phil Agulnik, Duncan Burbidge, and Stuart Duffin; "Healing Politics: Citizen Policies and the Pursuit of Happiness," by Steve Shafarman; "Basic income on the Agenda: Policy Objectives and Political Chances," edited by Lock Groot and Robert Jan Van der Veen; Daily Bread, the Story of Jasper's Box," by Stephen C. Clark; and "What's Wrong With a Free Lunch?," edited by Joel Rogers and Joshua Cohen. The guaranteed income is the unconditional assurance that no one's income falls below a certain level for any reason. There are many ways to accomplish this goal, but much of the recent literature focuses on a version called the basic income, which is an income that would be paid by the government to every citizen regardless of private income, wealth, employment, or marital status.
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DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2001.11506427Date Published
2001Rights
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Journal of Economic Issues, 35(4).
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Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income, Part I
Widerquist, Karl (M.E. Sharpe, 2001)The article focuses on the concept of "Guaranteed Income." The idea of a guaranteed income has been around in one form or another since Thomas Paine proposed a version of it in 1796. Except for a brief period in the 1960s ...