Readings on Basic Income and Universal Grant Proposals
(An Extended List)
Michael Goldsmith
Anthropology Programme
University of Waikato
Adriaansens, Hans and Willem Dercksen
1993 Labour Force Participation, Citizenship and a Sustainable Welfare State in the Netherlands. In Harry Coenen and Peter Leisink (eds), Work and Citizenship in the New Europe. Aldershot: Edward Elgar.
Alcock, Pete
1989 Unconditional Benefits: Misplaced Optimism in Income Maintenance. Capital and Class 37: 117-32.
1997 Understanding Poverty. Basingstoke: Macmillan. (2nd edn.)
Andersson, Jan Otto
1997 Building Blocks for a New Society. Citizen's Income Bulletin 23: 8-10.
Argyle, Keith
1991 An Inner City Perspective. BIRG Bulletin 13: 27-30.
Atkinson, A[nthony] B[arnes]
1983 The Economics of Inequality. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (2nd edition.)
1989 Poverty and Social Security. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
1995 Public Economics in Action: The Basic Income/ Flat Tax Proposal. Oxford: Clarendon.
1996 The Case for a Participation Income. Political Quarterly 67(1): 67-70.
AUWRC
1994 Employment: Issues and Solutions: A Perspective from the Aotearoa Network of Unemployed and Beneficiaries. Auckland: Auckland Unemployed Workers' Rights Centre.
Baker, John
1992 An Egalitarian Case for Basic Income. In Philippe Van Parijs (ed.), Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform. London: Verso.
Barry, Brian
1996 Surfers' Saviour? Citizen's Income Bulletin (July) 22: 2-4.
Block, Fred and Jeff Manza
1997 Can We End Poverty in a Postindustrial Society? The Case for a Progressive Negative Income Tax. Politics and Society 25(4): 473-511.
Briar, Celia
1997 Women and Children Last? Priorities in Moving Towards a Universal Basic Income. Common Ground 4(4): 15.
Carling, Alan
1991 Social Division. London: Verso. (Chapters 16 and 17.)
1992 Just Two Just Taxes. In Philippe Van Parijs (ed.), Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform. London: Verso.
Cass, Bettina
1995 The Future of Income Support in an Open Economy: The Concept of Participation Income. In Income Support in an Open Economy: Basic Income Revisited. Melbourne: Victorian Council of Social Services/ Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services.
Clements, Richard
1996 Basic Income for Beginners. Citizen's Income (July) 22: 5-6.
Dahrendorf, Ralf
1988 The Modern Social Conflict: An Essay on the Politics of Liberty. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Dean, Hartley
1991 Social Security and Social Control. London: Routledge. (Chapter 7.)
Dobson, Andrew
1997 'Core Plus': Towards a More Logical Welfare Structure. Citizen's Income Bulletin 23: 29-31.
Dore, Ronald
1996 A Feasible Jerusalem? Political Quarterly 67(1): 58-63.
Earle, Michael
1983 Justice in the Benefit System for Today and Tomorrow? New Zealand Social Work Journal 8(4): 2-5.
Elster, Jon
1987 The Possibility of Rational Politics. European Journal of Sociology 28(1): 67-103.
FitzGerald, Garret
1997 Basic Income System Has Merit for Ireland. Citizen's Income Bulletin 24: 4-5.
Gilchrist, Les
1995 Who Pays for the Basic Citizens Income? New Zealand Monthly Review (April/ May) 349: 18.
Gilchrist, E. L. and Michael Goldsmith
1987 Is a Universal Grant Feasible in New Zealand? Submission 4513 to the Royal Commission on Social Policy (December).
Goldsmith, Michael
1997a Universal Basic Income and Poverty: Relating Anti-Poverty Measures to Basic Income Levels. In Mike O'Brien and Celia Briar (eds), Beyond Poverty: Citizenship, Welfare and Well-Being in the 21st Century---Conference Proceedings. Auckland: Peoples Centre.
1997b Universal Basic Income and the Concept of Citizenship. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 9: 45-54.
Gorz, André
1992 On the Difference Between Society and Community, and Why Basic Income Cannot by Itself Confer Full Membership of Either. In Philippe Van Parijs (ed.), Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform. London: Verso.
1994 Capitalism, Sociology, Ecology. (Chris Turner, ed.) London: Verso. (Chapter 8.)
Gough, Ian
1996 Justifying Basic Income? A Review of Philippe Van Parijs, Real Freedom for All? Imprints 1(1): 72-88.
Hirst, Paul
1994 Associative Democracy: New Forms of Economic and Social Governance. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
Huws, Ursula
1997 Flexibility and Security: Towards a New European Balance. London: Citizen's Income Trust. (Discussion Paper No. 3.)
Jackson, Sue
1995 Why Consider a Basic Income? In Income Support in an Open Economy: Basic Income Revisited. Melbourne: Victorian Council of Social Services/ Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services.
Jordan, Bill
1985 The State: Authority and Autonomy. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
1987 Rethinking Welfare. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
1988 The Prospects for Basic Income. Social Policy and Administration 22(2): 115-23.
1989 The Common Good. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
1992 Basic Income and the Common Good. In Philippe Van Parijs (ed.), Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform. London: Verso.
1995 Are New Right Policies Sustainable? 'Back to Basics' and Public Choice. Journal of Social Policy 24(3): 363-84.
1996 A Theory of Poverty and Social Exclusion. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Jordan, Bill, Simon James, Helen Kay and Marcus Redley
1992 Trapped in Poverty? London: Routledge.
Keane, John
1988 Democracy and Civil Society. London: Verso.
Keane, John and John Owens
1986 After Full Employment. London: Hutchinson.
Koslowski, Peter
1997 The Social State in the Post-Modern. In Peter Koslowski and Andreas Føllesdal (eds), Restructuring the Welfare State: Theory and Reform of Social Policy. Berlin: Springer. [On 'contributory basic pension']
Lange, Oskar
1964 On the Economic Theory of Socialism. In Oskar Lange and Fred M. Taylor, On the Economic Theory of Socialism. New York: McGraw-Hill. (First published in 1938.)
Little, Adrian
1997 Flexible Working and Socialist Theories of Welfare. Imprints 1(3): 37-56.
Lister, Ruth
1990a The Exclusive Society: Citizenship and the Poor. London: Child Poverty Action Group.
1995 Dilemmas in Engendering Citizenship. Economy and Society 24(1): 1-40.
1997 Poverty and Social Exclusion [Review article on Jordan 1996]. Imprints 1(3): 80-91.
Manning. Lowell
1997 Privatisation of Success as an Incubator of Poverty. In Mike O'Brien and Celia Briar (eds), Beyond Poverty: Citizenship, Welfare and Well-Being in the 21st Century---Conference Proceedings. Auckland: Peoples Centre.
Meade, James [J. E.]
1948 Planning and the Price Mechanism: The Liberal-Socialist Solution. London: George Allen and Unwin.
1972 Poverty in the Welfare State. Oxford Economic Papers 24(3): 289-326.
1991 Basic Income in the New Europe? BIRG Bulletin 13: 4-6.
1995 Full Employment Regained? An Agathotopian Dream. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Department of Applied Economics Occasional Paper 61.)
Morris, Leonie
1996 Financial Independence for Women: The Universal Basic Income. Broadsheet 210(Winter): 19-21.
Offe, Claus
1992 A Non-Productivist Design for Social Policies. In Philippe Van Parijs (ed.), Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform. London: Verso.
1993 A Non-Productivist Design for Social Policies. In Harry Coenen and Peter Leisink (eds), Work and Citizenship in the New Europe. Aldershot: Edward Elgar.
1995 Full Employment: Asking the Wrong Question? Dissent (Winter): 77-81.
1996 The Acceptance and Legitimacy of Strategic Options in Social Policy. In Claus Offe, Modernity and the State: East, West. Cambridge: Polity Press.
1997 Towards a New Equilibrium of Citizens' Rights and Economic Resources? In OECD, Societal Cohesion and the Globalising Economy: What Does the Future Hold? Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Offe, Claus, with Ulrich Mückenberger and Ilona Ostner
1996 A Basic Income Guaranteed by the State: A Need of the Moment in Social Policy. In Claus Offe, Modernity and the State: East, West. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Oubridge, Victor
1990 Basic Income and Industrial Development: An Employer's Viewpoint. BIRG Bulletin 11: 28-30.
Paine, Thomas
1967 Agrarian Justice. In Moncure Daniel Conway (ed.), The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. III, 1791-1804. New York: AMS Press.
Parker, Hermione
1989 Instead of the Dole. London: Routledge.
Parker, Hermione (ed.)
1993 Citizen's Income and Women. London: Citizens Income Study Centre. (BIRG Discussion Paper No. 2.)
Parker, Hermione and Susan Raven
1996 Basic Income for Intermediates. Citizen's Income Bulletin (July) 22: 11-15.
Parker, Hermione and Holly Sutherland
1994 Basic Income 1994: Redistributive Effects of Transitional BIs. Citizen's Income Bulletin No. 18: 3-8.
1998 How to Get Rid of the Poverty Trap: Basic Income plus National Minimum Wage. Citizen's Income Bulletin 25: 11-14.
Pixley, Jocelyn
1993 Citizenship and Employment: Investigating Post-Industrial Options. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
1995 Combining Work and Welfare: A Low Wage Economy? In Income Support in an Open Economy: Basic Income Revisited. Melbourne: Victorian Council of Social Services/ Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services.
Plant, Robert
1997 Citizenship, Employability and the Labour Market. Citizen's Income Bulletin 24: 2-3.
Probert, Belinda
1995 Basic Income and Socially Useful Work. In Income Support in an Open Economy: Basic Income Revisited. Melbourne: Victorian Council of Social Services/ Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services.
Purdy, David
1988 Social Power and the Labour Market: A Radical Approach to Labour Economics. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
1994 Citizenship, Basic Income and the State. New Left Review 208: 30-48.
Rankin, Keith
1991 The Universal Welfare State: Incorporating Proposals for a Universal Basic Income. Auckland: University of Auckland, Department of Economics (Policy Discussion Paper No. 12).
1992a Escaping the Poverty Trap: A Proposal for a Universal Basic Income. New Zealand Political Review 1(2): 28-40.
1992b Universal Benefits: Can We Afford Not to Have Them? In Alan Marston (ed.), The Other Economy: Economics Nature Can Live With. Auckland: LBD Books.
1994a Dividing the Cake: Concepts of Class, Justice and Environment for a New Century. New Zealand Political Review 3(3): 16-24.
1994b Dividing the Cake: The New Zealand Economy in the 2010s. New Zealand Political Review 3(4): 16-23.
1996a So Little Relief. New Zealand Political Review 5(2): 12-17.
1996b The Standard Tax Credit and the Social Wage: Existing Means to a Universal Basic Income. Auckland: Department of Economics, University of Auckland. (Policy Discussion Paper No. 20.)
1997a Social Wage Tax Credits. In Mike O'Brien and Celia Briar (eds), Beyond Poverty: Citizenship, Welfare and Well-Being in the 21st Century---Conference Proceedings. Auckland: Peoples Centre.
1997b Teach Your Children Well. New Zealand Political Review 6(4): 8-12.
1997c A New Fiscal Contract? Constructing a Universal Basic Income and a Social Wage. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 9: 55-65.
1998 Revisiting the UBI. New Zealand Political Review 7(2): 12-15.
Rhys Williams, Brandon
1997 A European Basic Income? Citizen's Income Bulletin 23: 28.
Robertson, James
1994a Benefits and Taxes: A Radical Strategy. London: New Economics Foundation.
1994b The Changing Context: CI as Part of a Larger Reform Package. Citizen's Income Bulletin No. 18: 14-15.
1996 Towards a New Social Compact: Citizen's Income and Radical Tax Reform. Political Quarterly 67(1): 54-8.
Roche, Maurice
1992 Rethinking Citizenship: Welfare, Ideology and Change in Modern Society. Cambridge: Polity. (Pp. 178-89.)
Roebroek, Joop M. and Erik Hogenboom
1990 Basic Income: Alternative Benefit or New Paradigm? BIRG Bulletin 11: 8-11.
Roemer, John E.
1992 The Morality and Efficiency of Market Socialism. Ethics 102(3): 448-64.
Saunders, Peter
1995 Conditionality and Transition as Issues in the Basic Income Debate. In Income Support in an Open Economy: Basic Income Revisited. Melbourne: Victorian Council of Social Services/ Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services.
Smith, D. V. L. et al.
1991 Basic Income: A Research Report. Epping, Essex: DVL Smith and Associates.
Standing, Guy
1986 Meshing Labour Flexibility with Security: An Answer to British Unemployment. International Labour Review 125(1): 87-106.
1992 The Need for a New Social Consensus. In Philippe Van Parijs (ed.), Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform. London: Verso.
1997 The Folly of Social Safety Nets: Why Basic Income is Needed in Eastern Europe. Social Research 64(4): 1339-79.
Theobald, Robert
1963 Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter.
Tomlinson, John
1995 Income Maintenance: Targeting Destroys Initiative. In Income Support in an Open Economy: Basic Income Revisited. Melbourne: Victorian Council of Social Services/ Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services.
1997 There But for the Grace of Wealth Go I. In Mike O'Brien and Celia Briar (eds), Beyond Poverty: Citizenship, Welfare and Well-Being in the 21st Century---Conference Proceedings. Auckland: Peoples Centre.
Torisky, Eugene V., Jr
1993 Van Parijs, Rawls, and Unconditional Basic Income. Analysis 53(4): 289-97.
Van der Veen, Robert
1997 Basic Income in the Netherlands? Citizen's Income Bulletin 23: 11-13.
1998 Real Freedom versus Reciprocity: Competing Views on the Justice of Unconditional Basic Income. Political Studies 46(1): 140-63.
Van der Veen, Robert and Philippe Van Parijs
1986a A Capitalist Road to Communism. Theory and Society 15(5): 635-55. (Reprinted in Van Parijs 1993.)
1986b Universal Grants Versus Socialism: Reply to Six Critics. Theory and Society 15(5): 723-57. (Reprinted in Van Parijs 1993.)
Van Parijs, Philippe
1986-87 A Revolution in Class Theory. Politics and Society 15(4): 453-82. (Reprinted in Van Parijs 1993.)
1990 Getting Paid for Doing Nothing: Plain Justice or Ignominy? The Ethical Foundations of a Basic Income. BIRG Bulletin 11: 15-19.
1991a Why Surfers Should Be Fed: The Liberal Case for an Unconditional Basic Income. Philosophy and Public Affairs 20(2): 101-31.
1991b Basic Income: A Green Strategy for the New Europe. In Sara Parkin (ed.), Green Light on Europe. London: Heretic Books.
1992a Competing Justifications of Basic Income. In Philippe Van Parijs (ed.), Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform. London: Verso.
1992b The Second Marriage of Justice and Efficiency. In Philippe Van Parijs (ed.), Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform. London: Verso.
1992c Basic Income Capitalism. Ethics 102(3): 465-84.
1993 Marxism Recycled. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1995 Real Freedom For All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism? Oxford: Clarendon Press.
1996 Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare State. Political Quarterly 67(1): 63-66.
1997a An Interview with Philippe Van Parijs. Imprints 1(3): 5-22.
1997b On the Moral Foundations of the Welfare State: Three Research Programmes. In Peter Koslowski and Andreas Føllesdal (eds), Restructuring the Welfare State: Theory and Reform of Social Policy. Berlin: Springer.
1997c Reciprocity and the Justification of an Unconditional Basic Income. Reply to Stuart White. Political Studies 45(2): 327-30.
1998 Citizen's Income: Progress and Prospects. In Sharing Our Common Heritage: Resources Taxes and Green Dividends: One Day International Conference. Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
Van Parijs, Philippe (ed.)
1992 Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform. London: Verso.
Veal, A. J.
1987 Leisure and the Future. London: Allen and Unwin. (Chapter 5.)
Vilrokx, Jacques
1993 Basic Income, Citizenship and Solidarity: Towards a Dynamic for Social Renewal. In Harry Coenen and Peter Leisink (eds), Work and Citizenship in the New Europe. Aldershot: Edward Elgar.
Vince, Philip
1990 Citizen's Income. BIRG Bulletin 11: 20-1.
Vinson, Nigel
1998 Sharing the Rice Bowl---A Citizen's Pension. Citzen's Income Bulletin 25: 7.
Vobruva, Georg
1990 Four Good Reasons for a Guaranteed Basic Income. BIRG Bulletin 11: 22-3.
1991 Basic Income, Democracy and the Labour Market. BIRG Bulletin 13: 18-19.
Watts, Rob
1993 A Welfare State for the Twenty First Century: Basic Income and Renovating Citizenship and Social Policy. Paper presented to Social Policy Conference 1993, UNSW, Sydney.
1995 Basic Income, Employment and Citizenship: Considerations on Pixley. In Income Support in an Open Economy: Basic Income Revisited. Melbourne: Victorian Council of Social Services/ Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services.
White, Stuart
1997 Liberal Equality, Exploitation, and the Case for an Unconditional Basic Income. Political Studies 45(2):312-26.