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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