Introduction: Financing Approaches to Basic Income

Richard Pereira
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Richard Pereira: University of Birmingham

Chapter 1 in Financing Basic Income, 2017, pp 1-5 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The different ways in which basic income can be financed are set out in this chapter as a guide to reading the book. A decent basic income is presented as the goal of this work, as opposed to some basic income proposals that may be viewed as potentially worse than status quo income security programmes in various countries. Protecting vital public programmes such as universal health care or public education, for example, is essential to implementation of a decent basic income, as is setting it at a sufficient level to ensure a dignified existence and a measure of social inclusion. Proposals that set out to cut public programmes in wholesale fashion and set a low level of basic income are rejected. Income security programme redundancies are discussed in this light along with differing models and methods of financing basic income.

Keywords: Basic income; Finance; Financing basic income; Programme redundancy; Demogrant; Public programmes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54268-3_1

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