NEW BOOK Financing Basic Income: Addressing the Cost Objection – Basic Income News

Financing Basic Income: Addressing the Cost Objection, edited by Richard Pereira (University of Birmingham, UK), is the latest addition to the Palgrave Macmillan series Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee.

Contributors include Pereira, Albert Jrimann (Basic Income Earth Network, Switzerland) and Gary Flomenhoft (University of Vermont, USA; University of Queensland, Australia).

Publishers summary

This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable. The contributors approach the topic from the perspectives of three different countriesCanada, Switzerland, and Australiato overcome objections that a universal program to keep all citizens above the poverty line would be too expensive to implement. They assess the complex array of revenue sources that can make universal basic income feasible, from the underestimated value of public program redundancies to new and so far unaccounted publicly owned assets.

Contents

1. Introduction by Richard Pereira

2. Foundations for a Basic Income Guarantee: Affordability through Program Redundancies by Richard Pereira

3. Cost Feasibility of Basic Income in Europe: A Financing Case Study from Switzerland by Albert Jrimann

4. Building up BIG: Land Rent in Australia as a Significant Financing Source by Gary Flomenhoft

5. Conclusion by Richard Pereira

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Kate began reporting for Basic Income News in March 2016, and joined BIEN's Executive Committee in July 2016. She is also Secretary of BIEN's US affiliate, the US Basic Income Guarantee Network.

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