In search of the double-edged sword / Paul de Beer -- Basic income and its cognates: partial basic income versus earned income tax credit and reductions of Social Security contributions as alternative ways of addressing the 'new social question' / Philippe van Parijs, Laurence Jacquet and Claudio Caesar Salinas -- Activation and the burden of working: on instrument choice by a responsibility-sensitive egalitarian government / Frank Vandenbroucke and Tom Van Puyenbroeck -- Arguing for a negative income tax in Germany / Joachim Mitschke -- Hush money or emancipation fee? A gender analysis of basic income / Ingrid Robeyns -- Prospects for basic income in an age of inactivity? / Anton Hemerijk -- Basic income and social Europe / Fritz W. Scharpf -- Basic income at the heart of social Europe? Reply to Fritz Scharpf / Philippe Van Parijs -- European basic income or the race to the bottom: why politicians might come to think the unthinkable / Steve Quilley
Summary
A inquiry into the pros and cons of an unconditional basic income
