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Author Widerquist, Karl

Title The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (398 pages)
Series Alternative Voices in Contemporary Economics
Alternative voices in contemporary economics
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Alternative Voices in Contemporary Economics; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 An Introduction to the Basic Income Guarantee; PART one History; 2 In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law; 3 Inheritance and Equal Shares: Early American Views; 4 The Guaranteed Income Movement of the 1960s and 1970s; 5 A Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments: Looking Back at the Most Innovate Field Studies in Social Policy; PART two Debate
6 Basic Income in the United States: Redefining Citizenship in the Liberal State7 Basic Income, Liberal Neutrality, Socialism, and Work; 8 Does She Exploit or Doesn't She?; 9 Perhaps There Can Be Too Much Freedom; PART three Evidence; 10 Income Guarantees and the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff; 11 Have the 1996 Welfare Reforms and Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit Eliminated the Need for a Basic Income Guarantee in the United States?; 12 Back to Work Incentives in a Dynamic Perspective: An Application to French Labor Markets
13 Social Minima in Europe: The Risks of Cumulating Income-SourcesPART four Proposals; 14 The Political Economy of the Basic Income Grant in South Africa; 15 The Approval of the Basic Income Guarantee in Brazil; 16 The Basic Income Guarantee in Europe: The Belgian and Dutch Back Door Strategies; 17 The Cost of Eliminating Poverty in Canada: Basic Income With an Income Test Twist; 18 Can a Negative Income Tax System for the United Kingdom be Both Equitable and Affordable?; Index
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Subject Basic income -- Congresses
Income maintenance programs -- Congresses
Employment subsidies -- Congresses
Basic income
Employment subsidies
Income maintenance programs
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Lewis, Michael Anthony
Pressman, Professor Steven
ISBN 9781351890533
1351890530