A Short History of the Basic Income Idea

Philippe Van Parijs ()
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Philippe Van Parijs: University of Louvain

Chapter Chapter 3 in The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income, 2023, pp 43-59 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract While public conditional minimum income schemes gradually superseded private or religious charitable provision for the poor from the sixteenth century onwards, it is only from the late eighteenth century that the idea of providing an unconditional income emerged, alongside the proposal for a one-off capital grant for young adults. Thomas Spence is credited with being the first to propose an unconditional regular income at the local level; and Joseph Charlier with being the first to propose it at the national level. Van Parijs then presents the British debate after World War I, the North-American debate in the 1960s; and finally the academic and political interest in Basic Income that started timidly in Europe in the 1980s and turned into worldwide popularity three decades later.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41001-7_3

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