Basic Income - Cover
Author
Philippe van Parijs, Yannick Vanderborght
Published by Harvard University Press, 2017
Pages 388
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Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

This is the first book I've read on basic income, so I learned some quite interesting things. The most interesting, to my mind, was the history, and present, philosophical justification for a universal basic income. The justification they give is at first a Christian one; i.e. God gave the land to us all, so we should profit from it. I found this rough justification quite problematic really. I did find most of the way they presented their argument mostly pretty good; but I certainly found other parts of the book moderately problematic, especially some parts discussing immigration. Overall, I think it's a nice entrypoint into the theory and field; but I think we have a long way to go yet.