Basic Income Worldwide Horizons of Reform [Hardcover]

In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity. This is the first book to discuss existing at examples of basic income, in both rich and poor countries, and to consider its prospects in other places around the world.Introduction PART I: EXPERIMENTS The Basic Income Guarantee in the United States: Past Experience, Current Proposals; K.Widerquist  & A.Sheahan Seeing the Sun Rise: The Basic Income Grant Pilot Project in Namibia - Realities and Hopes; C.Haarmann  & D.Haarmann Minimum Income in Brazil: A New Model of Innovation Diffusion; D.B.Co?lho The Case for Basic Income in Canada; E.L.Forget PART II: PROPOSALS Basic Income and Republican Freedom in North and South: Financing Proposals for Catalonia and East Timor; D.Cassassas , J.Wark  & D.Raventos The Continuing Politics of Basic Income in South Africa; J.Seekings  & H.Matisonn Ireland and the Prospects for Basic Income Reform; S.Healy  & B.Reynolds Manifold Possibilities, Peculiar Obstacles  Basic Income in the German Debate; S.Liebermann Prospects for a Tax-Benefit Reforms in New Zealand that Incorporates a Basic Income; K.Rankin Basic Income in Australia - A Distant Horizon; J.Tomlinson ConclusionDAVID CASASSAS Post-doctoral Fellow in Sociology and Political Theory at the Universitat de Barcelona, SpainDENILSON BANDEIRA CO?LHO Professor of Political Science at the University of Bras?lia, BrazilEvelyn L. Forget Economist and Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, USACLAUDIA HAARMANN holds a PhD in Social Development from UWC and is an ordained Lutheran pastorDIRK HAARMANN holds a PhD in Social Development from UWC and is an ordained Lutheran pastorSE?N HEALY PhD, Director of Social Justice, IrelandSASCHA LIEBERMANN Assistant Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum, GermanyMATTHEW MURRAY Special Lecturer of Philosophy at ProvidelÃ