Basic Income on the Agenda
eBook - PDF

Basic Income on the Agenda

Policy Objectives and Political Chances

  1. 290 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Basic Income on the Agenda

Policy Objectives and Political Chances

About this book

A inquiry into the pros and cons of an unconditional basic income.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. How Attractive is a Basic Income for European Welfare States?
  5. Part One. Policy Objectives
  6. In Search of the Double-Edged Sword
  7. 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’
  8. Activation and the Burden of Working: On Instrument Choice by a Responsibility-Sensitive Egalitarian Government
  9. Arguing for a Negative Income Tax in Germany
  10. Hush Money or Emancipation Fee? A Gender Analysis of Basic Income
  11. Prospects for Basic Income in an Age of Inactivity?
  12. Basic Income and Social Europe
  13. Basic Income at the Heart of Social Europe? Reply to Fritz Scharpf
  14. European Basic Income or the Race to the Bottom: Why Politicians Might Come to Think the Unthinkable
  15. Bibliography
  16. Part Two Political Chances
  17. Clues and Leads in the Debate on Basic Income in the Netherlands
  18. The History of an Idea: Why did Basic Income Thrill the Finns, but not the Swedes?
  19. From Concept to Green Paper: Putting Basic Income on the Agenda in Ireland
  20. Short Cuts and Wrong Tracks on the Long March to Basic Income: Debating Social Policy Reform in Germany
  21. Ups and Downs of Basic Income in Denmark
  22. What Reforms are Needed for the Minimum Insertion Income (RMI) in France?
  23. The VIVANT Experiment in Belgium
  24. Notes on the Contributors
  25. Index