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Is a Citizen’s Income Psychologically Feasible?

In: The Feasibility of Citizen's Income

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  • Malcolm Torry

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Feasibility tests based on such presuppositions as ‘the rich don’t need it’, ‘if people earn more then their benefits should be reduced’, ‘people won’t work if you just give them the money’ are failed by universal benefits. It might be true that Citizen’s Income would pass psychological feasibility tests based on existing universal benefits, but that would still not necessarily persuade individuals wedded to the embedded presuppositions. Multiple individual conversions would be required to shift public opinion, and to shift policy makers’ mindsets. The chapter shows that this might be a possibility. Alternatively, the problem could be circumvented by establishing Citizen’s Incomes for one age group at a time, beginning with those thought to be more ‘deserving’.

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  • Malcolm Torry, 2016. "Is a Citizen’s Income Psychologically Feasible?," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: The Feasibility of Citizen's Income, chapter 0, pages 87-117, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-1-137-53078-3_5
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53078-3_5
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    1. Chrisp, Joe & Garcia-Lazaro, Aida & Pearce, Nick, 2023. "Technological chance and growth regimes: Assessing the case for universal basic income in an era declining labour shares," FRIBIS Discussion Paper Series 01-2023, University of Freiburg, Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS).
    2. Martinelli, Luke & O'Neill, Kathryn, 2019. "A comparison of the fiscal and distributional effects of alternative basic income implementation modes across the EU28," EUROMOD Working Papers EM14/19, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.

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