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How Universal Basic Income Could Change the Future--For the Rich, the Poor, and Everyone in Between
Annie Lowrey: Give People Money Annie Lowrey: Give People Money Annie Lowrey: Give People Money

A ​brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income--a stipend given to every citizen--and why it might be necessary for our age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology

Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your checking account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy, but it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time. Futurists, radicals, libertarians, socialists, union representatives, feminists, conservatives, Bernie supporters, development economists, child-care workers, welfare recipients, and politicians from India to Finland to Canada to Mexico--all are talking about UBI.

In this sparkling and provocative book, economics writer Annie Lowrey looks at the global UBI movement. She travels to Kenya to see how a UBI is lifting the poorest people on earth out of destitution, India to see how inefficient government programs are failing the poor, South Korea to… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2018

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272 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9781524758776
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Virgin, 2018
272 oldal · ASIN: B07486P1X3
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Crown, New York, 2018
272 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9781524758769

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