Free Money for All [electronic resource] : A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century /
Walker, Mark.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 -- .
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.