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263 pages ; 22 cm
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Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time. Futurists, radicals, libertarians, socialists, union representatives, feminists, conservatives, Bernie supporters, development economists, child-care workers, welfare recipients, and politicians from India to Finland to Canada to Mexico...
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Time has changed. Nowadays there is no space for lone fighters. The young generation tries to fulfill a fundamental Change in social values. Financial benefits are no longer satisfying. Their attitude and point of view is equal to the basic concerns of the 'Christian Social teaching'. They form coalitions with some socio-politically active groups who follow the Christian social doctrine. This documentary tries to portray as well as explain the motives...
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Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19-with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and the steady creep of automation-an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a liveable and obligation-free basic income.
Could a basic income guarantee be the way forward to democratize security and intervene where the...
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xix, 284 pges : illustrations ; 24 cm
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From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy.
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This book is about a radical idea: the idea that each of us deserves enough money on which to live - and that it should be paid independently of our personal means, and independently of whether we work, or even want to work.
The concept of 'basic income' has been discussed internationally and has the potential to revolutionise the way that society functions. It would provide greater security for the young, for the self-employed and entrepreneurs...
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Basic Income is a policy idea that could help us revolutionise the way we organise society. This book is the first proper guide to basic income -- what it is, how we can organise it, and how it can benefit the majority in different spheres of their lives.
Basic Income is simply the idea that everyone in a given society has a right to a minimal income. This is paid by the state out of taxation. Set at a subsistence level, it would take the place...
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Radical Trust: Basic Income For Complicated Lives explores the notion that a basic income is a compassionate and dignified response to poverty and income inequality in Canada. Through extensive testimonials with those that the "social safety net" fails most dramatically, it tells the stories of lived experience, as individuals navigate the complicated circumstances of their lives. The myth of meritocracy creates distinctions between the deserving,...
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The Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is one of the most hotly debated ideas of recent years on the left – and, indeed, right. The potential threat to millions of current jobs posed by robotization and artificial intelligence combined with the rise of inequality has contributed to making it a core element of the continuing post-crisis discussions on what it means to be on the left, or a social democrat, today and in the future.
Is an unconditional...
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Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been, exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19, with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labor, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and the steady creep of automation, an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a livable and obligation-free basic income.
Could a basic income guarantee be the way forward to democratize security and intervene where the...
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The motivating idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is radically simple: give people cash and let them do whatever they want with it. But does this simple idea have the potential to radically transform our society?
This book provides the average citizen with all the information they need to understand current debates about the UBI. It recounts the history of the idea, from its origins in the writings of eighteenth century radical intellectuals...
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Our government was established to promote the general welfare. We want and deserve – and we can have – a lean, effective, responsive, and truly democratic government. This book updates ideas from Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Martin Luther King Jr., and several Nobel laureate economists. A majority of Americans supported these ideas in the 1960's, and Congress almost enacted a version of this plan. Alaska residents have a version, since 1982....
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The theory of the Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) has been debated for centuries. However, one of the major obstacles to the implementation of the UBI is lack of empirical testing. Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs that resemble the UBI, to a certain degree, as is the case of the Bolsa Família (BF), have also been implemented. This project is internationally considered as an example of success in combating historical poverty and inequality...
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319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"A noted Dutch journalist and economist proposes an outline for a new worldwide Utopia, with central tenets including a shortened work week, a guaranteed basic income for all, wealth redistribution, and open borders everywhere"--
16) Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream
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Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), spent four years traveling the country and asking economists, futurists, labor leaders, CEOs, investment bankers, entrepreneurs, and political leaders to help picture the U.S. economy twenty-five to thirty years from now. He vividly reports on people who are analyzing and creating this new economy-such as investment banker Steve Berkenfeld; David Cote, the CEO of...
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A leading economist challenges dominant theories on global inequality, discussing why wealth persistently remains in the hands of a few and how technological development threatens to create a scarcity of unskilled jobs that will lead to even greater inequality.
"In his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, economist Thomas Pikkety argued that the contemporary phenomenon of rising inequality across the globe is a function of the inheritance of...
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xxiii, 450 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 x 17 cm.
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"In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years? AI will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, but many people know little about it apart from visions of dystopian robots or flying cars. Though the term has been around for half a century,...
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300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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La mayoria de los americanos informan que tomarian dos semanas adicionales de vacaciones por encima de dos semanas adicionales de salario, la mitad de todos los profesionales de negocios dicen que su trabajo no ofrece ningun significado, y casi la mitad de todos los empleos corren un alto riesgo de ser usurpados por las maquinas. Mientras tanto, despues de trabajar todo el dia en trabajos que a menudo no nos gusta, compramos cosas que no necesitamos....
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