دانلود کتاب Why We Need a Citizen’s Basic Income

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WHY WE NEED ACITIZEN’S BASIC INCOME\nContents\nList of figures and tables\n Figures\n Tables\nThe structure of the book\nTerminology\n ‘Unconditional’ and ‘universal’1\n ‘Citizen’s Basic Income’5\n ‘Allowance’\n Tax Credits (real ones) and Negative Income Tax\n ‘Marginal deduction rate’\n Contributory benefits\n Means-tested benefits\n ‘Universal Credit’\n Capitalisation\nAbout the author\nAcknowledgements\nForeword\nPreface\n1. Imagine …\n Imagine this …\n Imagine these people …\n Imagine a country …\n Creating the ideal benefits system\n2. How did we get to where we are now?\n A means-tested past and a means-tested future?\n Universal25 benefits in the UK: a brief history26\n Proposals that failed\n What conclusions can we draw from this history?\n The National Health Service\n A global debate\n3. The economy, work and employment\n An efficient economy\n A changing employment market16\n A Citizen’s Basic Income’s effects on employment\n A benefits system appropriate to any future employment market\n ‘Work’\n Conclusion\n4. Individuals and their families\n The changing family1\n The changing role of women\n The individual’s dignity\n Conclusion\n5. Administrative efficiency\n Our tax and benefits structure should be coherent: its parts should fit together\n Our tax and benefits structure should be simple to administer3\n Error, fraud and criminalisation\n Conclusion\n6. Reducing poverty and inequality\n Poverty\n Inequality\n Redistribution\n Redistributing the ability to raise one’s net income\n Conclusion\n7. Is it feasible?\n Financial feasibility\n Psychological feasibility\n Administrative feasibility\n Behavioural feasibility\n Political feasibility\n Policy process feasibility\n Conclusion\n8. Options for implementation\n Four implementation methods\n An evaluation of the four implementation methods\n An implementation scenario based on the third implementation method\n An additional implementation option\n Conclusion\n9. Pilot projects and experiments\n Alaska1\n Iran14\n Namibia 21\n India\n Social transfers in Latin America and elsewhere\n Further experiments\n A pilot project in the UK?71\n Conclusion\n10. Objections\n We shouldn’t pay people to do nothing\n Immigration would go up\n People wouldn’t work\n We can’t afford it\n If a Citizen’s Basic Income scheme abolished means-tested benefits then we wouldn’t know to whom we should give passported benefits such as free school meals\n There are lots of problems that it wouldn’t solve\n It would increase public expenditure\n The money could be better used on other things127\n More objections\n Conclusion\n11. Alternatives to a Citizen’s Basic Income\n Tax Credits\n Negative Income Tax\n A Participation Income\n Improved National Insurance benefits\n Conclusion\ntwelve\n12. A brief summary\n What is a Citizen’s Basic Income?\n Figure 12.1 shows what a Citizen’s Basic Income looks like\nAfterword\nAppendix\n Introduction1\n The ‘all at once’ scheme\n A gradual roll-out, one age cohort at a time\n Conclusion\nBibliography\nNames index\nSubject index