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Basic income : the material conditions of freedom /
Basic Income is a policy idea that could help us revolutionise the way we organise society. This book is the first proper guide to basic income -- what it is, how we can organise it, and how it can benefit the majority in different spheres of their lives. Basic Income is simply the idea that everyon...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. :
Pluto Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. A provocative but possible proposal
- 1.1 The definition
- 1.2 What Basic Income is not
- 1.3 Is there a Basic Income anywhere in the world?
- 1.4 Historical precedents
- 1.5 The last 20 years
- 1.6 Basic Income in the twenty-first century
- 1.7 Strengths, questions, doubts
- 2. Normative liberal justifications
- 2.1 The libertarian justification: property first
- 2.2 The 'possible' justification of justice as fairness: self-respect to the fore
- 2.3 The real freedom justification: a real-libertarian society
- 2.4 Liberal theories and republican theories
- 3. The normative republican justification
- 3.1 Aristotle: material existence as a condition of freedom
- 3.2 Property in Cicero
- 3.3 The right of existence: Robespierre
- 3.4 Republican freedom
- 3.5 Republican virtue and neutrality
- 3.6 The republican justification of Basic Income
- 4. Remunerated work, domestic work and voluntary work
- 4.1 Three kinds of work
- 4.2 Basic Income and the job market
- 4.3 Basic Income and domestic work
- 4.4 Basic Income and voluntary work
- 5. Poverty
- 5.1 A typology of poverty
- 5.2 Measuring poverty
- 5.3 The poor cannot be free
- 6. The welfare state and Basic Income
- 6.1 What is the welfare state?
- 6.2 The crisis
- 6.3 Justifications of the welfare state and some criticisms
- 6.4 Minimum income support
- 6.5 Basic Income in contrast with means-tested subsidies
- 7. Basic Income in comparison with other proposals
- 7.1 Traditional measures against poverty and unemployment: a more flexible labour market and reduction of working hours
- 7.2 Not-so-traditional measures against poverty and unemployment
- 7.3 Proposals that are more or less akin to Basic Income
- 8. Financing
- 8.1 Aims and scope of the model
- 8.2 Data and sample
- 8.3 The micro-simulation model
- 8.4 An ambitious example
- 8.5 Two more modest examples
- 9. Basic Income and its critics
- 9.1. Ethical criticisms
- 9.2 Technical criticisms