Debating Universal Basic Income: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee)

✍ Scribed by Robert E. Wright, Aleksandra Przegalińska

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 145
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book presents the most compelling arguments for and against implementing a basic income guarantee today, in the voice of proponents and critics, in alternating chapters. Tables, figures, and pictures illustrate the key concepts and evidence, which include benefit cliffs and disincentive deserts, time series macroeconomic data, business, economic, and technological change (BETC), artificial intelligence and other general purpose technologies, along with advanced robotics, the environmental Kuznets Curve, income distributions, democracy, social justice, dependence, autonomy, and economic freedom. A neutral, non-partisan tone introduction defines UBI and covers the history of universal income plans, while the conclusion summarizes the main arguments for and against UBI before surveying alternative policies, including universal basic asset, credit, service, job, and training plans.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 UBI Basics
Political Ideologies and UBI
Waves of Interest in UBI
This Book’s Goals
References
2 In Favor: Something for Everyone
References
3 Opposed: Less for All
References
4 In Favor: Safety from Artificial Intelligence
References
5 Opposed: No Country for New Robots
References
6 In Favor: Another Weapon Against Climate Change
References
7 Opposed: The Centralized Control Conceit
References
8 Opposed: Too Dear or Too Little
References
9 In Favor: UBI Pays for Itself
References
10 Opposed: Democracy Destroyed
References
11 In Favor: Democracy Enhanced and Social Justice, Too!
References
12 Opposed: Dependency
References
13 In Favor: Autonomy
References
14 Summary and Alternatives
UBI Later?
Would a Universal Basic Asset, Credit, Job, Training, or Service Scheme Help More People for Less Money?
Ubi Libertas, Ibi Prosperitas: Economic Freedom and Prosperity for All
References
References
Index

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