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Record Nr.

UNINA9910366624303321

Autore

Mays Jennifer <1968->

Titolo

Basic Income, Disability Pensions and the Australian Political Economy : Envisioning Egalitarian Transformation, Funding and Sustainability / / by Jennifer Mays

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030323493

3030323498

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages)

Collana

Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, , 2662-3811

Disciplina

336

Soggetti

Finance, Public

Social choice

Welfare economics

Labor economics

Public Economics

Social Choice and Welfare

Labor Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Basic Income, Fit for Australia and the Fairness Test -- 2. Basic Income in Australia and Disability Conceptions -- 3. Basic Income, Disability Dimension and the Fairness Test -- 4. Reconfiguring Social Security Arrangements and Strengthening Public Services -- 5. Financing a Basic Income: Explorations of International Models for Application in Australia -- 6. Disability Pensions and the Legacy of Targeting and Classification -- 7. Future Vision: Building a Sustainable Basic Income and Society.

Sommario/riassunto

Global developments in basic income have reinvigorated political debates on the necessity of progressing to universal basic income implementation. Basic income is a powerful strategy for addressing poverty gaps and growing inequality. This book provides new insights and strategies from an Australian political economy perspective to respond to implementation challenges and distributive justice. The



book positions the disability dimension and disability pensions in relation to basic income to explore strategies for strengthening universal provisions. It illustrates the need for socially just conditions and adequate financing to underpin redistribution as a way of safeguarding the sustainability of basic income.