Pereira Financing Basic Income

Addressing the Cost Objection
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-54268-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 116 Seiten

Reihe: Economics and Finance

This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable. The contributors approach the topic from the perspectives of three different countries—Canada, Switzerland, and Australia—to overcome objections that a universal program to keep all citizens above the poverty line would be too expensive to implement. They assess the complex array of revenue sources that can make universal basic income feasible, from the underestimated value of public program redundancies to new and so far unaccounted publicly owned assets.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pereira, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; Richard Pereira.- 2. Foundations for a Basic Income Guarantee: Affordability through Program Redundancies; Richard Pereira.- 3. Cost Feasibility of Basic Income in Europe: A Financing Case Study from Switzerland; Albert Jörimann.- 4. Building up BIG: Land Rent in Australia as a Significant Financing Source; Gary Flomenhoft.- 5. Conclusion; Richard Pereira.

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Pereira is Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK, and was formerly an economist with the House of Commons in Canada. 

Contributors
Albert Jörimann, Basic Income Earth Network, Switzerland

Gary Flomenhoft, University of Vermont, USA; University of Queensland, Australia