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Autore: | Walker Mark |
Titolo: | Free Money for All : A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century / / by Mark Walker |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XI, 249 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.582 |
362.5/82 | |
Soggetto topico: | Economic policy |
Economic theory | |
Finance, Public | |
Macroeconomics | |
Welfare economics | |
Economic Policy | |
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods | |
Public Finance | |
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics | |
Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Basic income guarantee -- Paying for basic income guarantee -- Fulltime capitalism : basic income guarantee as a dividend from state capital -- Capitalism : consequentialism versus rights -- Peace, robots, and technological unemployment -- Basic income guarantee happiness -- Basic income guarantee freedom -- A basic income guarantee future -- Concluding unscientific postscript -- . |
Sommario/riassunto: | A basic income guarantee (BIG) is a payment by the federal government to all adult citizens. This book uses the United States as its model and sets the minimum income at $10,000 USD. Free Money for All seeks to show that not only is a basic income guarantee a feasible model for public policy, it is a morally attractive proposal. In this exciting new volume, Walker argues that BIG promotes three positive outcomes - social stability, gross national happiness, and gross national freedom - unlike alternate proposals such as socialism, laissez-faire capitalism, and the traditional welfare state. He uses a philosophical perspective to defend BIG against the claim that the promotion of social goals egregiously infringes the requirements of justice. Free Money for All employs a novel twist on the though that BIG can be supported by the idea of a social dividend. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Free Money for All |
ISBN: | 1-137-47133-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910254885803321 |
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