IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bpj/ordojb/v70y2019i1p215-238n10.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Für ein Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen den Sozialstaat aufgeben?

Author

Listed:
  • Cremer Georg

    (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgFakultät für Wirtschafts- und VerhaltenswissenschaftenMerzhausenGermany)

Abstract

Supporters of the Unconditional Basic Income expect great benefits upon its introduction: It would guarantee freedom and self-determination, overcome poverty, strengthen social cohesion and democracy and solve the problems of the welfare state. Even more, some supporters associate the basic income with an economic system working free of economic incentives. However, realistically considering the effects of incentives, the financing the basic income appears to be very challenging. Thus, financing of a basic income at a substantial level would require to abandon the current welfare state, a step contrary to the ambitious aims of most supporters. It seems preferable to refrain from a large-scale social experiment with an uncertain outcome and to reflect on Karl Popper’s warning and to continue on the cumbersome path of reform and piecemeal work.

Suggested Citation

  • Cremer Georg, 2019. "Für ein Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen den Sozialstaat aufgeben?," ORDO. Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, De Gruyter, vol. 70(1), pages 215-238, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:ordojb:v:70:y:2019:i:1:p:215-238:n:10
    DOI: 10.1515/ordo-2020-0011
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/ordo-2020-0011
    Download Restriction: For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1515/ordo-2020-0011?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Unconditional Basic Income; Welfare State; Social Security; Justice; Bureaucratic Costs; Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen; Sozialstaat; soziale Sicherung; Gerechtigkeit; Bürokratiekosten; Unconditional Basic Income; Welfare State; Social Security; Justice; Bureaucratic Costs;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bpj:ordojb:v:70:y:2019:i:1:p:215-238:n:10. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.degruyter.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.