Readings on Basic Income and Universal Grant Proposals

(An Introductory List)

Michael Goldsmith
Anthropology Programme
University of Waikato

 

Atkinson, A[nthony] B[arnes]
1989 Poverty and Social Security. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

1995 Public Economics in Action: The Basic Income/Flat Tax Proposal. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Clements, Richard
1996 Basic Income for Beginners. Citizen's Income Bulletin (July) 22: 5-6.

Dean, Hartley
1991 Social Security and Social Control. London: Routledge. (Chapter 7.)

Gilchrist, E. L. and Michael Goldsmith
1987 Is a Universal Grant Feasible in New Zealand? Submission 4513 to the Royal Commission on Social Policy (December).

Goldsmith, Michael
1997 Universal Basic Income and the Concept of Citizenship. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 9: 45-54.

Hirst, Paul
1994 Associative Democracy: New Forms of Economic and Social Governance. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.

Jordan, Bill
1985 The State: Authority and Autonomy. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

1987 Rethinking Welfare. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

1988 The Prospects for Basic Income. Social Policy and Administration 22(2): 115-23.

1989 The Common Good. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Keane, John
1988 Democracy and Civil Society. London: Verso.

Keane, John and John Owens
1986 After Full Employment. London: Hutchinson.

Meade, James
1991 Basic Income in the New Europe? BIRG Bulletin 13: 4-6.

1995 Full Employment Regained? An Agathotopian Dream. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Department of Applied Economics Occasional Paper 61.)

Morris, Leonie
1996 Financial Independence for Women: The Universal Basic Income. Broadsheet 210(Winter): 19-21.

Offe, Claus
1996 Modernity and the State: East, West. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Oubridge, Victor
1990 Basic Income and Industrial Development: An Employer's Viewpoint. BIRG Bulletin 11: 28-30.

Parker, Hermione
1989 Instead of the Dole. London: Routledge.

Parker, Hermione (ed.)
1993 Citizen's Income and Women. London: Citizens Income Study Centre. (BIRG Discussion Paper No. 2.)

Parker, Hermione and Susan Raven
1996 Basic Income for Intermediates. Citizen's Income Bulletin (July) 22: 11-15.

Parker, Hermione and Holly Sutherland
1998 How to Get Rid of the Poverty Trap: Basic Income plus National Minimum Wage. Citizen's Income Bulletin 25: 11-14.

Purdy, David
1988 Social Power and the Labour Market: A Radical Approach to Labour Economics. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

1994 Citizenship, Basic Income and the State. New Left Review 208: 30-48.

Rankin, Keith
1991 The Universal Welfare State: Incorporating Proposals for a Universal Basic Income. Auckland: Department of Economics, University of Auckland. (Policy Discussion Paper No. 12.)

1992a Escaping the Poverty Trap: A Proposal for a Universal Basic Income. Political Review [Dunedin] 1(2): 28-40.

1992b Universal Benefits: Can We Afford Not to Have Them? In Alan Marston (ed.), The Other Economy: Economics Nature Can Live With. Auckland: LBD Books.

1996 The Standard Tax Credit and the Social Wage: Existing Means to a Universal Basic Income. Auckland: Department of Economics, University of Auckland. (Policy Discussion Paper No. 20.)

1997a Social Wage Tax Credits. In Mike O'Brien and Celia Briar (eds), Beyond Poverty: Citizenship, Welfare and Well-Being in the 21st Century---Conference Proceedings. Auckland: Peoples Centre.

1997b A New Fiscal Contract? Constructing a Universal Basic Income and a Social Wage. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 9: 55-65.

1998 Revisiting the UBI. New Zealand Political Review 7(2): 12-15.

Robertson, James
1994a Benefits and Taxes: A Radical Strategy. London: New Economics Foundation.

1994b The Changing Context: CI as Part of a Larger Reform Package. Citizen's Income Bulletin No. 18: 14-15.

1996 Towards a New Social Compact: Citizen's Income and Radical Tax Reform. Political Quarterly 67(1): 54-8.

Roebroek, Joop M. and Erik Hogenboom
1990 Basic Income: Alternative Benefit or New Paradigm? BIRG Bulletin 11: 8-11.

Van Parijs, Philippe
1990 Getting Paid for Doing Nothing: Plain Justice or Ignominy? The Ethical Foundations of a Basic Income. BIRG Bulletin 11: 15-19.

1991a Why Surfers Should Be Fed: The Liberal Case for an Unconditional Basic Income. Philosophy and Public Affairs 20(2): 101-31.

1991b Basic Income: A Green Strategy for the New Europe. In Sara Parkin (ed.), Green Light on Europe. London: Heretic Books.

1992 Basic Income Capitalism. Ethics 102(3): 465-84.

1993 Marxism Recycled. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1995 Real Freedom For All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism? Oxford: Clarendon Press.

1996 Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare State. Political Quarterly 67(1): 63-66.

1997 An Interview with Philippe Van Parijs. Imprints 1(3): 5-22.

Van Parijs, Philippe (ed.)
1992 Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform. London: Verso.

Vince, Philip
1990 Citizen's Income. BIRG Bulletin 11: 20-1.

Vinson, Nigel
1998 Sharing the Rice Bowl---A Citizen's Pension. Citzen's Income Bulletin 25: 7.

Vobruva, Georg
1990 Four Good Reasons for a Guaranteed Basic Income. BIRG Bulletin 11: 22-3.

1991 Basic Income, Democracy and the Labour Market. BIRG Bulletin 13: 18-19.

 


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