This book provides the first detailed history of guaranteed income schemes in modern Britain. It examines past and present British social policy debate to argue that the case for recasting the UK's transfer state to incorporate a Universal Basic Income is increasingly powerful.
This book provides the first detailed history of guaranteed income schemes in modern Britain. It examines past and present British social policy debate to argue that the case for recasting the UK's transfer state to incorporate a Universal Basic Income is increasingly powerful.
Peter Sloman is Senior Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He was a Junior Research Fellow at New College before moving to Cambridge in 2015. His first book, The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 (Oxford, 2015) examined how British Liberals engaged with economic thought in the era of John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge. He has also published articles in a number of leading journals and has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Part I: The politics of redistribution * 1: Introduction * 2: Redistributive Market Liberalism and its critics * Part II: In search of a guaranteed income * 3: Social dividends and social contracts, 1918-55 * 4: Negative Income Tax comes to Britain, 1955-70 * 5: 'The pragmatist's solution to poverty': The Heath government's Tax Credit Scheme, 1970-4 * Part III: Cash transfers in post-industrial Britain * 6: Redistribution in a cold climate: The politics of guaranteed income in the 1970s and 1980s * 7: New Labour's tax credits, 1997-2010 * 8: A crisis of the transfer state? Distributional politics since the 2008 financial crisis * 9: The return of Universal Basic Income * Part IV: Conclusion * 10: What kind of transfer state?
* Preface * Part I: The politics of redistribution * 1: Introduction * 2: Redistributive Market Liberalism and its critics * Part II: In search of a guaranteed income * 3: Social dividends and social contracts, 1918-55 * 4: Negative Income Tax comes to Britain, 1955-70 * 5: 'The pragmatist's solution to poverty': The Heath government's Tax Credit Scheme, 1970-4 * Part III: Cash transfers in post-industrial Britain * 6: Redistribution in a cold climate: The politics of guaranteed income in the 1970s and 1980s * 7: New Labour's tax credits, 1997-2010 * 8: A crisis of the transfer state? Distributional politics since the 2008 financial crisis * 9: The return of Universal Basic Income * Part IV: Conclusion * 10: What kind of transfer state?
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