Free Money for All

A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century
2016. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-47132-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4336 g

Reihe: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee

Free Money for All makes the case for a basic income guarantee of $10,000 per adult US citizen. The book shows that a basic income guarantee will increase gross national happiness and gross national freedom, while helping to mitigate some of the worst consequences of rising technological unemployment.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Basic Income Guarantee
2. Paying for Basic Income Guarantee
3. Fulltime Capitalism: Basic Income Guarantee as a Dividend from State Capital
4. Capitalism: Consequentialism Versus Rights
5. Peace, Robots, and Technological Unemployment
6. Basic Income Guarantee Happiness
7. Basic Income Guarantee Freedom
8. A Basic Income Guarantee Future
9. Concluding Unscientific Postscript

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Walker is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department of New Mexico State University, USA, where he occupies the Richard L. Hedden Endowed Chair in Advanced Philosophical Studies. His current primary research interest is in the ethical issues arising out of emerging technologies, such as genetic engineering, advanced pharmacology, artificial intelligence research, and nanotechnology.