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Financing Basic Income : Addressing the Cost Objection / edited by Richard Pereira.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, 2662-3811
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finance, Public.
- Social choice.
- Welfare economics.
- Public Economics.
- Public Finance.
- Social Choice and Welfare.
- Local Subjects:
- Public Economics.
- Public Finance.
- Social Choice and Welfare.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (116 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783319542683
- 3319542680
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