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The basic income guarantee and social economics

Lewis, Michael; Pressman, Steven; Widerquist, Karl - In: Review of Social Economy 63 (2005) 4, pp. 587-593

This article introduces the Review of Social Economy symposium on the basic income guarantee (BIG). It argues that there are several ways in which the BIG is consistent with social economics. First, the BIG is an attempt to meet the minimum material needs of US citizens and contribute to the...

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Household Debt and Income Distribution

Scott, Robert; Pressman, Steven - In: Journal of Economic Issues 47 (2013) 2, pp. 323-332

Our previous work argued that the official U.S. poverty definition is flawed because it ignores interest paid on … argues that what is true of poverty is likewise true of income inequality indices, such as the gini coefficient and the …

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Consumer Debt and the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality in the US*

Pressman, Steven; Scott, Robert - In: Review of Social Economy 67 (2009) 2, pp. 127-148

This paper argues that interest on consumer debt must be taken into account when measuring poverty and inequality … conventional government statistics. Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, we make estimates of poverty and inequality that take …

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