Universal Basic Income as a Social Rights–Based Antidote to Growing Economic Insecurity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23201271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Alston (New York Law School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 377-404 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Future of Economic and Social Rights (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108284653.015 |
| OpenAlex | W2773557438 |
| ISBN | 9781108284653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
One important response to increasing economic insecurity and rights retrenchment is the emerging policy proposal for a Universal Basic Income (UBI). This chapter examines the heritage of this idea in distributive justice debates, and its current uptake in small-scale experiments in India, Finland and Kenya. The UBI may address growing economic insecurity and precariousness, and new challenges brought by global supply chains and automation. Alston, who engaged this proposal in a recent report as Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, has long called for engagement, by the human rights movement, with questions of political economy. Here, he contrasts the UBI with a series of other schemes of social protection, including the negative income tax, global basic income, welfare state, cash transfers (both conditional and unconditional) and social protection floors. In particular, he suggests that all schemes be brought more critically in dialogue, and be enlivened to implications, not only for rights to an adequate standard of living, social security and work but also to the overall social protection framework, in both developed and developing states.
Antidote · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Human Rights and Development · Medicine · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Utopianism
Inequality
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The precariat
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Reimagining Equity and Egalitarianism
The Politics of Unconditional Basic Income
The Problem with Work
The Idea of Justice
Basic Income in Our Time
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |