Why We Need a Citizen’s Basic Income Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- The structure of the book
- Terminology
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- one Imagine …
- two How did we get to where we are now?
- three The economy, work and employment
- four Individuals and their families
- five Administrative efficiency
- six Reducing poverty and inequality
- seven Is it feasible?
- eight Options for implementation
- nine Pilot projects and experiments
- ten Objections
- eleven Alternatives to a Citizen’s Basic Income
- twelve A brief summary
- Afterword
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Names index
- Subject index
Afterword
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 April 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- The structure of the book
- Terminology
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- one Imagine …
- two How did we get to where we are now?
- three The economy, work and employment
- four Individuals and their families
- five Administrative efficiency
- six Reducing poverty and inequality
- seven Is it feasible?
- eight Options for implementation
- nine Pilot projects and experiments
- ten Objections
- eleven Alternatives to a Citizen’s Basic Income
- twelve A brief summary
- Afterword
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Names index
- Subject index
Summary
Hermione Parker concludes her book Instead of the Dole with some words of Barbara Wootton:
The limits of the possible constantly shift, and those who ignore them are apt to win in the end. Again and again, I have had the satisfaction of seeing the laughable idealism of one generation evolve into the accepted common-place of the next.
In the UK during the 1920s, family allowances were ‘seen as an issue for cranks and utopians’, and the 1930s were a time of recession and rising unemployment; but by 1946 every family with more than one child was in receipt of Family Allowances.
As this book has shown, a Citizen's Basic Income is no longer just an issue for cranks and utopians. Given the significant advantages that a Citizen's Basic Income would offer to society and to the economy, it is an issue that every policy maker needs to address. It is high time for implementation.
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- Why We Need a Citizen’s Basic IncomeThe desirability, feasibility and implementation of an unconditional income, pp. 195 - 196Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2018