Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy
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基本收入：自由社会和稳健经济的激进提议
DOI：
10.4159/9780674978072
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Y. Vanderborght
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作者：
P. Parijs;Y. Vanderborght
不管人们是否正在工作或正在找工作，给他们发工资听起来可能很疯狂。但是，为每个人提供无条件的基本收入的想法，无论贫富，活跃与否，都得到了托马斯·潘恩、约翰·斯图亚特·密尔和约翰·肯尼斯·加尔布雷斯等主要思想家的倡导。在很长一段时间里，它几乎没有被注意到，也没有被认真对待。今天，随着传统福利国家在压力下摇摇欲裂，它已成为世界上最广泛讨论的社会政策建议之一。菲利普·范·帕里斯和雅尼克·范德博特对这一激进思想进行了迄今为止最全面的辩护，认为它是解决21世纪经济不安全和社会排斥问题的最现实的希望。作者将基本收入的概念与过去和现在的对抗贫困和失业的理念进行了比较，将哲学、政治和经济学无缝地结合在一起。他们追溯了无条件收入的历史，解决了反对无条件收入的经济和道德问题——包括所谓的削弱激励和鼓励搭便车的倾向——并阐述了这样一个看似不可思议的想法在经济上是可行的，在政治上是可以实现的。最后，他们考虑了该建议在日益全球化的经济中的相关性。在一个日益不平等和政治分歧加剧的时代，当解决持久社会问题的旧答案不再激发信心时，基本收入为我们提供了新的理由，让我们希望我们可能实现一个自由的社会和一个健全的经济。
It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to every individual, rich or poor, active or inactive, has been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. For a long time, it was hardly noticed and never taken seriously. Today, with the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, it has become one of the most widely debated social policy proposals in the world. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present the most comprehensive defense of this radical idea so far, advocating it as our most realistic hope for addressing economic insecurity and social exclusion in the twenty-first century. The authors seamlessly combine philosophy, politics, and economics as they compare the idea of a basic income with rival ideas past and present for guarding against poverty and unemployment. They trace its history, tackle the economic and ethical objections against an unconditional income--including its alleged tendency to sap incentives and foster free riding--and lay out how such an apparently implausible idea might be viable financially and achievable politically. Finally, they consider the relevance of the proposal in an increasingly globalized economy. In an age of growing inequality and divided politics, when old answers to enduring social problems no longer inspire confidence, Basic Income presents fresh reasons to hope that we might yet achieve a free society and a sane economy.