The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income

Part I: Introductory chapters.- Chapter 1: Introduction; Malcolm Torry.- Chapter 2: The definition and characteristics of Basic Income; Malcolm Torry.- Chapter 3: Three waves of Basic Income support; Karl Widerquist.- Part II: Some of the likely effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 4: Employment market effects of Basic Income; Richard Gilbert, Ursula Huws, Gunmin Yi.- Chapter 5: Social effects of Basic Income; Jenni Mays.- Chapter 6: Some effects of Basic Income on economic variables; Meghnad Desai, Ana Helena Palermo.- Chapter 7: Ecological Effects of Basic Income; Michael W. Howard, Jorge Pinto, Ulrich Schachtschneider.- Chapter 8 : The gender effects of a Basic Income; Annie Miller, Toru Yamamori, Almaz Zelleke.- Part III: The feasibility and implementation of Basic Income.-Chapter 9: The feasibility and implementation of Basic Income; Malcolm Torry.- Chapter 10: Alternative funding methods; Julio Andrade, Geoff Crocker, Stewart Lansley.- Chapter 11: Analysis of the financial effects of Basic Income; Gareth Morgan, Howard Reed, Malcolm Torry.- Chapter 12: Alternatives to Basic Income; Benjamin Leff, Andrew Percy, Michael Story, Maciej Szlinder.- Chapter 13: Framing Basic Income: Comparing media framing of Basic Income in Canada, Finland, and Spain; Johanna Perkiö, Leire Rincon, Jenna van Draanen.- Chapter 14: The Philosophy and Political Economy of Basic Income Revisited; Louise Haagh.- Part IV: Pilot projects and other experiments.- Chapter 15: The Negative Income Tax experiments of the 1970s; Karl Widerquist.- Chapter 16: Citizen's Basic Income in Brazil: From Bolsa Família to pilot experiments; Valéria Ferreira Santos de Almada Lima, Maria Ozanira da Silva e Silva.- Chapter 17: Basic Income by default: Lessons from Iran's 'cash subsidy' programme; Massoud Karshenas, Hamid Tabatabai.- Chapter 18: The Namibian Basic Income Grant Pilot; Claudia, Dirk Haarmann, Nicoli Nattrass.- Chapter 19: Pilots, evidence and politics: The Basic Income debate in India; Sarath Davala.- Chapter 20: The Finnish Basic Income experiment: A primer; Jurgen De Wispelaere, Antti Halmetoja, Ville-Veikko Pulkka.- Chapter 21: A variety of experiments; Julen Bollain, Loek Groot, Annie Miller, Enno Schmidt, Enkeleida Tahiraj, Timo Verlaat, Gunmin Yi.- Part V: Political and ethical perspectives.- Chapter 22: Libertarian perspectives on Basic Income; Miranda Perry Fleischer, Otto Lehto.- Chapter 23: Socialist arguments for Basic Income; David Casassas, Daniel Raventós, Maciej Szlinder.- Chapter 24: Neither left nor right; Joe Chrisp Luke Martinelli.- Chapter 25: Trade Unions and Basic Income; Troy Henderson, John Quiggin.- Chapter 26: The ethics of Basic Income; Simon Birnbaum.- Part VI: Concluding chapter.- Chapter 27: Tentative conclusions; Malcolm Torry.