Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective

Introduction

Pedro Ramos Pinto, Peter Sloman and Daniel Zamora

I. Anglo-American Economists and Guaranteed Incomes

1. Varieties of Basic Income: The British Case, Peter Sloman

2. Milton Friedman's Negative Income Tax and the Demise of Welfare Economics, Daniel Zamora Vargas

3. Living Wages and Universal Incomes: Radical Economics Activists in Neoliberal America, Tiago Mata

II. Feminism, Post-Work and Automation

4. The End of Work? Guaranteed Income as a Feminist and Ecological Response to Fordism, Alyssa Battistoni  

5. Basic Income and the Spectre of the Machine, Andrew Sanchez

III. Basic Income in Post-Industrial Europe

6. "Free of Our Labors and Joined Back to Nature": Basic Income and the Politics of Post-Work in the Low Countries, c.1968-1986, Anton Jäger

7. Activating the Unemployed or Liberating Workers? Basic Income in the French Welfare Reform Debate, 1988-2018, Marc Antoine Sabaté

8. André Gorz's Recantation of the Second Cheque Strategy and his Adoption of UBI, Walter van Trier

IV. Cash Transfers in a Global Context

9. Jobs or Income Guarantees? A History of the Rise, Fall, and Questionable Resurgence of Universal Basic Income and Cash Transfers in Southern Africa, Liz Fouksman

10. From Freedom to Finance: How Development Paradigms Framed Basic Income, Louise Haagh

11. Basic Needs and the Discovery of Global Poverty, Samuel Moyn