In this paper
Philip Harvey argues that basic income advocates have been too ready to
reject the conventional definition of the right to work, too willing to
embrace the assumption that it cannot be secured by reasonable means,
and too quick to conclude that a basic income guarantee would provide
an adequate substitute for it... [ read more]
In this
article, the authors compare and contrast two major economic theories
to combat the problem of "income insecurity." They contend that the
Basic Income model - the proposition that governments should provide
all citizens with a basic income which they may then supplement with
work - is flawed in that it doesn't attack the root problem of income
insecurity... [ read more]
Guy Standing
argues that the right to work, in the sense of having free choice, does
not necessarily conflict with the right to basic income security as
many scholars believe. Instead, basic income is one of many necessary
conditions to the achievement of the right to work... [ read more]
In this paper
Jose Antonio Noguera argues that the idea of basic income, an
unconditional income guarantee, is directly embodied within the moral
intuitions that underlie the political traditions that built the modern
welfare state. Unconditional income guarantees should not be subjected
to any kind of work conditions... [ read more]
This paper
advances two arguments. First, basic income guarantees are unlikely to
achieve their objectives, because such proposals have an inherent
highly inflationary bias with disastrous consequences for the currency.
Secondly, this paper contends that certain direct job creation
programs, such as ELR, achieve most of the common goals that income and
job guarantee supporters share, without the problem of inflation.... [ read more] This article
proposes an alternative to the two major research models that have been
posited: a lottery game designed specifically for the implementation of
a Basic Income experiment as a means for collecting research data. The
proposal calls for a self-funded lottery game in which the winners
receive Basic Income for life, similar to Win for Life lottery games. [ read more] Scholarly
debates concerning basic income, job guarantees, the right to work,
employer of last resort, and their policy implications have become
riddled with confusion and misunderstanding. Many of these
misunderstandings stem from the fact that we do not all have the same
policy goals in mind.... [ read more] Most
discussions concerning the efficacy of adopting a basic income policy
weigh the need to mitigate social injustice against the long-term
sustainability of basic income policies. Perhaps a more important
question is whether a guaranteed basic income policy can be
incorporated into a capitalist society, or whether it would create such
a broad divergence from capitalism that socialism or statism would
emerge? ... [ read more] In this paper
John Tomlinson proposes a blueprint for a sensible employment policy in
Australia. The blueprint accounts for unemployment "solutions"
suggested in Australia since the end of the Second World War, though it
focuses upon more recent suggestions.... [ read more] Michael
A. Lewis
Jose
Luis Rey Perez
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The Right to Work and Basic Income Guarantees:
Competing or Complementary Goals?