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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 An Introduction to the Basic Income Guarantee
PART ONE: HISTORY
2 In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law
3 Inheritance and Equal Shares: Early American Views
4 The Guaranteed Income Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
5 A Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments: Looking Back at the Most Innovate Field Studies in Social Policy
PART TWO: DEBATE
6 Basic Income in the United States: Redefining Citizenship in the Liberal State
7 Basic Income, Liberal Neutrality, Socialism, and Work
8 Does She Exploit or Doesn't She? 13
9 Perhaps There Can Be Too Much Freedom
PART THREE: EVIDENCE
10 Income Guarantees and the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff
11 Have the 1996 Welfare Reforms and Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit Eliminated the Need for a Basic Income Guarantee in the United States?
12 Back to Work Incentives in a Dynamic Perspective: An Application to French Labor Markets
13 Social Minima in Europe: The Risks of Cumulating Income-Sources
PART FOUR: PROPOSALS
14 The Political Economy of the Basic Income Grant in South Africa
15 The Approval of the Basic Income Guarantee in Brazil
16 The Basic Income Guarantee in Europe: The Belgian and Dutch Back Door Strategies
17 The Cost of Eliminating Poverty in Canada: Basic Income With an Income Test Twist
18 Can a Negative Income Tax System for the United Kingdom be Both Equitable and Affordable?
Index

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