This book is about the right to a basic income: a right without conditions, just as a citizen of a good society should have the right to clean water
1 About time : basic income security as a right by Guy Standing 1
2 How basic income is moving up the policy agenda : news from the future by Anthony Atkinson 41
3 Can there be a right to basic income? by Raymond Plant 53
4 Wasteful welfare transactions : why basic income security is fundamental by Claus Offe 69
5 Migration, citizenship and welfare state reform in Europe : overcoming marginalization in segregated labour markets by Roswitha Pioch 83
6 The liberal's dilemma : immigration, social solidarity and basic income by Ron Dore 97
7 The psychological rationale for basic income by Rosamund Stock 101
8 The limits of production : justifying guaranteed basic income by Sibyl Schwarzenbach 107
9 Liberal and Marxist justifications for basic income by Michael Howard 115
10 Basic income, commons and commodities : the public domain revisited by Michael Kratke 131
11 'Calling' : a Christian argument for basic income by Torsten Meireis 147
12 Social credit as economic modernism : seven theses by Alan Dyer 165
13 Deliberative democracy and the legitimacy of basic income by Jorn Loftager 181
14 Mobilizing support for basic income by Steven Shafarman 197
15 A legitimate guaranteed minimum income? by Stefan Liebig and Steffen Mau 209
16 Republicanism and basic income : the articulation of the public sphere from the repoliticization of the private sphere by Daniel Raventos and David Casassas 231
17 Working poor in Europe : a partial basic income for workers by Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn 255
18 Basic income, social polarization and the right to work by Jose Noguera and Daniel Raventos 273
19 Popular support for basic income in Sweden and Finland by Jan Otto Andersson and Olli Kangas 289
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