Introduction: Income Security and the “Right to Subsistence” in Japan

Toru Yamamori and Yannick Vanderborght

Chapter Chapter 1 in Basic Income in Japan, 2014, pp 1-11 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A basic income (BI) “is an income paid by a political community to all its members on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement” (Van Parijs 2006: 4). This idea was first proposed in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and gained increasing visibility during the next two centuries. In the course of the twentieth century, some British Labourites, Dutch socialists, French liberals, Catalan nationalists, Canadian greens, and many others advocated it. It was also explored by a significant number of academics, including several Nobel laureates in economics.

Keywords: Welfare State; Social Assistance; Homeless People; Liberal Democratic Party; Basic Income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137348081_1

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