In this paper Philip Harvey argues that basic income advocates
have been too ready to reject the conventional definition of
the right to work, too willing to embrace the assumption that
it cannot be secured by reasonable means, and too quick to conclude
that a basic income guarantee would provide an adequate substitute
for it...
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In this article, the authors compare and contrast two major
economic theories to combat the problem of "income insecurity."
They contend that the Basic Income model - the proposition that
governments should provide all citizens with a basic income
which they may then supplement with work - is flawed in that it
doesn't attack the root problem of income insecurity...
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Guy Standing argues that the right to work, in the sense of
having free choice, does not necessarily conflict with the
right to basic income security as many scholars believe.
Instead, basic income is one of many necessary conditions
to the achievement of the right to work...
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In this paper Jose Antonio Noguera argues that the idea of
basic income, an unconditional income guarantee, is directly
embodied within the moral intuitions that underlie the political
traditions that built the modern welfare state. Unconditional
income guarantees should not be subjected to any kind of
work conditions...
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This paper advances two arguments. First, basic income guarantees are
unlikely to achieve their objectives, because such proposals have an
inherent highly inflationary bias with disastrous consequences for the
currency. Secondly, this paper contends that certain direct job creation
programs, such as ELR, achieve most of the common goals that income and
job guarantee supporters share, without the problem of inflation....
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This article proposes an alternative to the two major research models
that have been posited: a lottery game designed specifically for the
implementation of a Basic Income experiment as a means for collecting
research data. The proposal calls for a self-funded lottery game in
which the winners receive Basic Income for life, similar to Win for
Life lottery games.
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Scholarly debates concerning basic income, job guarantees, the right to work,
employer of last resort, and their policy implications have become riddled
with confusion and misunderstanding. Many of these misunderstandings stem
from the fact that we do not all have the same policy goals in mind....
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Most discussions concerning the efficacy of adopting a basic income
policy weigh the need to mitigate social injustice against the
long-term sustainability of basic income policies. Perhaps a more
important question is whether a guaranteed basic income policy can
be incorporated into a capitalist society, or whether it would create
such a broad divergence from capitalism that socialism or statism
would emerge? ...
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In this paper John Tomlinson proposes a blueprint for a sensible
employment policy in Australia. The blueprint accounts for unemployment
"solutions" suggested in Australia since the end of the Second World War,
though it focuses upon more recent suggestions....
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Michael A. Lewis
Jose Luis Rey Perez
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