Basic Income Schemes and the Lessons from Public Economics

Anthony Atkinson

Chapter 2 in Issues in Contemporary Economics, 1991, pp 22-38 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract What I would like to do in this lecture is to take one major policy issue in the field of social security and taxation — the proposal to introduce a basic income scheme — and use it as a basis for reviewing the current state of public economics. The basic income scheme is a quite radical proposal, affecting both social security and personal income taxation. It brings together consideration of tax reform — one of the leading policy topics of the 1980s — and of social security reform — which I suspect will be one of the key issues of the 1990s. It has generated interest in a number of countries. I have seen proposals for — among other countries — Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Eire, France, Italy, Netherlands, the UK, USA and West Germany.

Keywords: Labour Supply; Public Choice; Median Voter; Public Economic; Optimal Taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11573-0_2

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