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The Feasibility of Citizen's Income

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  • © 2016

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  1. Malcolm Torry

    1. London, United Kingdom

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Part of the book series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Is a Citizen’s Income Desirable?

    • Malcolm Torry
    Pages 1-23

  3. Is a Citizen’s Income Feasible? And What Do We Mean by ‘Feasible’?

    • Malcolm Torry
    Pages 25-37

  4. Is a Citizen’s Income Financially Feasible? Part One: Fiscal Feasibility

    • Malcolm Torry
    Pages 39-65

  5. Is a Citizen’s Income Financially Feasible? Part Two: Household Financial Feasibility

    • Malcolm Torry
    Pages 67-86

  6. Is a Citizen’s Income Psychologically Feasible?

    • Malcolm Torry
    Pages 87-117

  7. Is a Citizen’s Income Administratively Feasible?

    • Malcolm Torry
    Pages 119-142

  8. Is a Citizen’s Income Behaviourally Feasible?

    • Malcolm Torry
    Pages 143-166

  9. Is a Citizen’s Income Politically Feasible?

    • Malcolm Torry
    Pages 167-193

  10. Is a Citizen’s Income Policy Process Feasible?

    • Malcolm Torry
    Pages 195-236

  11. From Feasibility to Implementation

    • Malcolm Torry
    Pages 237-246

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 247-286
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About this book

This book is the first full-length treatment of the desirability and feasibility of implementing a citizen’s income (also known as a basic income). It tests for two different kinds of financial feasibility as well as for psychological, behavioral, administrative, and political viability, and then assesses how a citizen’s income might find its way through the policy process from proposal to implementation. Drawing on a wide variety of sources of evidence from around the world, this new book from the director of the Citizen’s Income Trust, UK, provides an essential foundation for policy and implementation debates. Governments, think tanks, economists, and public servants will find this thorough encompassing book indispensable to their consideration of the economic and social advantages and practicalities of a basic income.

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“Feasibility constitutes an essential component of any social policy library – not only for those who are specifically interested in or advocate for a Citizen’s Income. … Throughout The Feasibility of a Citizen’s Income Malcolm Torry’s particular authorial voice, blending compassion with analytical finesse, is audible. … Whether the current wave of interest in Citizen’s Income breaks or whether it becomes even larger, this work will remain relevant, essential, and powerful.” (Anthony Painter, Citizensincome.org, December, 2016)

“After decades of debate, the time has come seriously to address not the principles of a Citizens Income, but just how feasible it would be to introduce one. Malcolm Torry’s book uniquely and elegantly achieves this.” (Hartley Dean, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK)

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  • London, United Kingdom

    Malcolm Torry

About the author

Malcolm Torry is Director of the Citizen’s Income Trust and Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, UK. Recent publications include Money for Everyone: Why we Need a Citizen’s Income, and 101 Reasons for a Citizen’s Income: Arguments for Giving Everyone Some Money.

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