Basic Income
A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy (excerpts)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4460281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philippe Van Parijs (0000-0003-3348-1317, corresponding author), Yannick Vanderborght (0000-0002-9380-3990) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-59 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Economic Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1726-3247 • E-ISSN: 1726-3247 |
| Publisher | National Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17323/1726-3247-2020-1-44-59 |
| OpenAlex | W3005297927 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 81 |
The idea of providing people with income independently of the job they perform or seek seems mad. However, providing each individual (rich and poor, economically active and inactive) with an unconditional basic income was supported by such famous thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. For a long time this idea has not been taken seriously. At present, as the traditional welfare state has been straining under an increasing pressure, the basic income has become the most popular social policy project to discuss worldwide. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght argue that the basic income can overcome the economic insecurity and social exclusion of the 21st century. The authors combine some evidence from philosophy, politics and economics in order to compare the proposal of a basic income with other projects to alleviate poverty and unemployment, trace its history, and find answers to economic and political arguments against unconditional income, including the argument about a tendency to decreased stimulus and free-rider models of behavior that might result from the basic income; to explain how this seemingly impossible idea can be achieved economically and politically; and to consider its applicability to the extending global economy. In the age of increasing inequality and political fragmentation, when the old answers to deeply embedded social issues are not credible, the basic income offers the hope of achieving a free society and a sane economy
Basic income · Economics · Economy · Market economy · Political Economy and Marxism
Organizations
The Economy as Instituted Process
Society and Economy
Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society
Self-employment in OECD countries
Employers' attitudes, practices and policies towards older workers
The sharing economy
Assessing the Effects of School Resources on Student Performance
Health and Subjective Well-Being
What Makes a Satisfied Immigrant? Host-Country Characteristics and Immigrants’ Life Satisfaction in Eighteen European Countries
Happiness adaptation to income and to status in an individual panel
Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment
Unemployment as a Social Norm
North-South Trade, Employment and Inequality
Subculture
The dark side of online participation
The filter bubble
Networks in the Modern Economy
Global Inequality
Depressive symptoms and psychosocial stress at work among older employees in three continents
Scholarly Culture and Academic Performance in 42 Nations
Retirement Timing
The happiness of international migrants
Hop on Pop
The assessment of active labor market policies
Spiral effect of the law
Interrogating participation across disciplinary boundaries
Pathways Taken by New Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income Awardees
The precariat
Pension incentives and the joint retirement of couples
School expansion and uneven modernization. Comparing educational inequality in Northern and Southern Italy
An Urban-Rural Happiness Gradient
The subjective wellbeing of migrants in Guangzhou, China
For Better, for Worse
Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants
The Immigrant-Native Gap in Subjective Well-Being in Western European Countries
I just felt as though I had to drop something’
Understanding old-age adaptation policies in Europe
Fuller’ or ‘extended’ working lives? Critical perspectives on changing transitions from work to retirement
Employers and older workers
Social capital and migration
Migration, Livelihood and Well-being
Why People Move to the 'Sun-belt
Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the “Net Generation”
Unhappiness and Unemployment
How Important is Methodology for the Estimates of the Determinants of Happiness
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch’
Hyper-Organization
Exploring the ‘new worlds’ of (late?) retirement in Europe
Immigrants' Life Satisfaction in Europe
Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Advanced European Countries
Migration Background and Subjective Well-Being A Multilevel Analysis Based on the European Social Survey
Social Media
The Moral Economy of Digital Gifts
A Precariat Charter
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
Postcapitalism
Free Men and Free Markets
The Economic Incorporation of Immigrants in 18 Western Societies
(De)commodification, Consumer Culture, and Moral Economy
Work Practices of Older Population Groups
Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being
Bridge Over Troubled Water? Migration and Social Capital
Introducing Economic Sociology
Maximally Maintained Inequality
Neighborhood Effects on Educational Attainment
Social Capital and the Wages of Mexican Migrants
Portfolio Careers' and the Search for Flexibility in Later Life
Slipping Past the Test
Effectively Maintained Inequality
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
Minority Concentration and Earnings Inequality
Institutionalized Organizations
Inequality and the Relative Size of Minority Populations
The Social Construction of Retirement and Evolving Policy Discourse of Working Longer
Macro-conditions and immigrants' happiness
Life Satisfaction Among Ethnic Minorities
Subjective well-being among Russian students
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |