title: Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy
author: Philippe Van Parijs
description: A meticulously comprehensive, frequently persuasive accounting of [universal basic incomes] superiority by measures economic, philosophical, and pragmatic.<b><i></i></b><b>Nathan Heller</b><b>, </b><b><i>New Yorker</i></b><br /><br /><i>Basic Income</i> provides a rigorous analysis of the many arguments for and against a universal basic income, offering a road map for future researchers who wish to examine policy alternatives.<b><i></i></b><b>Marc Levinson</b><b>, </b><b><i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /><br />Although their goal is utopian, Van Parijs and Vanderborght aim to infuse it with economic and political realismWhat Van Parijs and Vanderborght bring to this topic is a deep understanding, an enduring passion and a disarming optimism.<b><i></i></b><b>Steven Pearlstein</b><b>, </b><b><i>Washington Post</i></b><br /><br />Van Parijs and Vanderborght have done the discussion of a universal basic income a great service. They have set forth, clearly and comprehensively, what is probably the best case to be made today for this form of economic and social policy.<b><i></i></b><b>Benjamin M. Friedman</b><b>, </b><b><i>New York Review of Books</i></b><br /><br />Provid[es] argument after argument as to why [basic incomes] introduction would be economically clever and why it is the next logical step to take in a long history of social policies aimed at reducing poverty and inequality. Their proposals are not only clear but also extremely pragmaticThe value of this book is that, more comprehensively than any other study yet, it explains why an obligation-free income for all would be so beneficial, and it also charts how this could be incrementally attained.<b><i></i></b><b>Danny Dorling</b><b>, </b><b><i>Times Higher Education</i></b><br /><br />Van Parijs and Vanderborght go deep, focusing exclusively on a universal guaranteed income and examining a range of philosophical, practical and political arguments for and against it. In considered, often enlightening, prose, they delve into John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin and Amartya Sen. They look at a number of alternative schemes; they discuss various objections to guaranteed income programs, including those over cost, free riding, and the possibility of diminished incentives.<b><i></i></b><b>Akash Kapur</b><b>, </b><b><i>Financial Times</i></b><br /><br />What matterswhat will lift the heart of every reader of <i>Basic Income</i>is that Van Parijs and Vanderborght have enlisted the rigor and scruple of first-rate social science in the service of a generous social vision that is at least as old as Saint Ambrose and as up-to-date as Pope Francis. Our sensible and humane descendantsthey are bound to be sensible or humane, since humanity would otherwise have long since succumbed to nuclear or environmental catastrophewill doubtless wonder, with the easy impatience of posterity, what we were waiting for. They may, in fairness to us, decide that we were waiting for books like this.<b><i></i></b><b>George Scialabba</b><b>, </b><b><i>Commonweal</i></b><br /><br />The book is likely to become a primer on core debates, such as the schemes overall feasibility, but its most striking aspect is how the authors make their argument. They justify a basic income not as a tool with which to address inequality, but rather as an instrument of freedom.<b><i></i></b><b>Aaron Reeves</b><b>, </b><b><i>Nature</i></b><br /><br />Will be essential for the ongoing debate.<b><i></i></b><b>Ben Collyer</b><b>, </b><b><i>New Scientist</i></b><br /><br />Van Parijs and Vanderborghtmake a sturdy ethical and philosophical argument for the provision of universal basic income This thorough, thoughtful study will undoubtedly become a much-cited landmark work on its subject.<b><i></i></b><b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b>
zlib_text: Basic Income and 
  Sovereign Money
  The Alternative 
  to Economic Crisis 
  and Austerity Policy
  Geoff Crocker
  
  Basic Income and Sovereign Money
  
  Geoff Crocker
  Basic Income
  and Sovereign Money
  The Alternative to Economic Crisis and Austerity
  Policy
  
  Geoff Crocker
  Basic Income Forum
  Bristol, UK
  ISBN 978-3-030-36747-3
  ISBN 978-3-030-36748-0
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  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36748-0
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