Introduction -- Effective control self-ownership: freedom as the power to say no -- Forty acres and a mule? Implications of respecting personal independence -- The importance of independence I: framing the issue -- The importance of independence II: freedom and integrity -- The importance of...

Between 1968 and 1980, the US and Canadian Governments conducted five Negative Income Tax (NIT) experiments, which continue to have an important impact on the discussion of Basic Income. The first section of the chapter discusses the labour market effects of the NIT experiments of the 1970s; the...