Financing Basic Income Addressing the Cost Objection
Description
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 countries—Canada, Switzerland, and Australia—to 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.
Keywords
Business & EconomicsPublic FinanceEconomicsTheory
2017Book
Author(s)Richard Pereira
PublisherSpringer International Publishing
ISBN9783319542676
LanguageEnglish
