Basic Income - What, Why, and How? : Aspects of the Global Basic Income Debate

1.Basic Income: What, why, and how? Introductory chapter -- 2.Defining Basic Income -- 3. ‘Unconditional’ and ‘universal’ -- 4. Basic Income and Basic Income schemes -- 5.Basic Income as the preserver and transformation of capitalism -- 6.The mode of delivery is important -- 7.Only for children? -- 8.Basic Income is feasible -- 9.Speenhamland is irrelevant -- 10.Testing different routes to a Basic Income -- 11.A Basic Income at the level of Minimum Income Standards? -- 12.What (if anything) can justify Basic Income pilot projects? -- 13.Factors influencing political decisions about social security benefits in the UK -- 14.Research and education in the UK debate -- 15.Political feasibility in the UK -- 16.Microsimulation research in the UK -- 17.What a Basic Income is, why it matters, and how it might come about.