Universal Basic Income

✍ Scribed by Karl Widerquist

Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 2024
Tongue: English
Leaves: 268
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

An accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.
The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with the audacious idea of a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizenship. This volume in the Essential Knowledge series presents the first short, solid UBI introduction that is neither academic nor polemic. It takes a position in favor of UBI, but its primary goal remains the provision of essential knowledge by answering the fundamental questions about it: What is UBI? How does it work? What are the arguments for and against it? What is the evidence?
Karl Widerquist discusses how UBI functions, showing how it differs from other redistributional approaches. He summarizes the common arguments for and against UBI and presents the reasons for believing...

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Series Foreword
1 Introducing Universal Basic Income
2 The Mechanics of UBI
3 The History of UBI and Related Policies
4 Evidence about UBI’s Effects
5 Alaska’s Experience with UBI
6 The Choice between Mandatory and Voluntary Participation: Arguing for (and against) UBI
7 Automation and UBI
8 The Future of UBI
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index

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