Basic Income Guarantee and Politics

Part 1. Introduction

1. Hopes and Realities of Adopting Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee Schemes
Richard K. Caputo

2. On the Political Feasibility of Universal Basic Income: An Analytic Framework
Jurgen De Wispelaere, José Antonio Noguera

Part 2. Hopes

3. The Best Income Transfer Program for Modern Economies
Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy

4. An Anniversary Note — BIEN’s Twenty-fifth
Guy Standing

Part 3. Realities

5. Finland: Institutional Resistance of the Welfare State against a Basic Income
Markku Ikkala

6. Germany: Far, though Close — Problems and Prospects of BI in Germany
Sascha Liebermann

7. Ireland: Pathways to a Basic Income in Ireland
Sean Healy, Brigid Reynolds

8. The Netherlands: Final Piece of the Welfare State Is Still to Come
Michiel Hasslet

9. Kingdom of Spain: Basic Income from Social Movements to Parliament and Back Again
Daniel Raventós, Julie Wark, David Casassas

10. Australia: Will Basic Income Have a Second Coming?
John Tomlinson

11. Canada: A Guaranteed Income Framework to Address Poverty and Inequality?
James P. Mulvale, Yannick Vanderborght

12. Japan: Political Change after the Economic Crisis Introduces Universalist Benefit
Toru Yamamori

13. Mexico: The First Steps toward Basic Income
Pablo Yanes

14. The United Kingdom: Only for Children?
Malcolm Torry

15. United States of America: GAI Almost in the 1970s but Downhill Thereafter
Richard K. Caputo

16. Iran: A Bumpy Road toward Basic Income
Hamid Tabatabai

Keywords: Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Political Economy, International Economics, Economic Systems, Labor Economics