Basic income. A radical project for a free society and a healthy economy. Van Paras F.

The idea to pay people income regardless of their work or its search may seem madness. However, for the provision of unconditional basic income to each individual - both rich and poor, both economically active and inactive - were such large thinkers as Thomas Payne, John Stewart Mill and John Kenneth Galbrait. For a long time this idea was not taken seriously. Today, when the traditional state of universal welfare creaks from the increased pressure, the basic income has become the most widely discussed project in the world in the field of social policy. Philip Van Paras and Yannik Vanderbreborcht defend the idea that the basic income will help to cope with economic insecurity and social exception in the XXI century.