Social Effects of Basic Income

Jenni Mays ()
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Jenni Mays: Queensland University of Technology

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income, 2019, pp 73-90 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Mays discusses the social effects of Basic Income in terms of a safety net that stretches beyond economic security. Such social effects as social cohesion and inclusion, and a sense of community and solidarity, are discussed at the level of the individual, the community, and society as a whole; and each of the three sections is accompanied by a case study about people with disabilities. The chapter finds that the social principles underlying a Basic Income scheme would affect the scheme’s effects, which means that it is important to establish those principles at the beginning of the design phase; and the chapter suggests that an understanding of the social effects of Basic income could counter normative resistance to the notion of Basic Income.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23614-4_5

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