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Basic Income Schemes and the Lessons from Public Economics

In: Issues in Contemporary Economics

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  • Anthony B. Atkinson

    (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Abstract

What I would like to do in this lecture is to take one major policy issue in the field of social security and taxation — the proposal to introduce a basic income scheme — and use it as a basis for reviewing the current state of public economics. The basic income scheme is a quite radical proposal, affecting both social security and personal income taxation. It brings together consideration of tax reform — one of the leading policy topics of the 1980s — and of social security reform — which I suspect will be one of the key issues of the 1990s. It has generated interest in a number of countries. I have seen proposals for — among other countries — Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Eire, France, Italy, Netherlands, the UK, USA and West Germany.

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  • Anthony B. Atkinson, 1991. "Basic Income Schemes and the Lessons from Public Economics," International Economic Association Series, in: Kenneth J. Arrow (ed.), Issues in Contemporary Economics, chapter 2, pages 22-38, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-11573-0_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11573-0_2
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    Cited by:

    1. Diego Daruich & Raquel Fernández, 2020. "Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment," NBER Working Papers 27351, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Mumbunan, Sonny & Maitri, Ni Made Rahayu, 2022. "A Review of Basic Income for Nature and Climate," OSF Preprints bre43, Center for Open Science.

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