Basic Income - What? Why? and How?
Aspects of the Global Basic Income Debate
This book is entirely about those aspects of the global Basic Income debate about which there is most discussion and sometimes the most conflict. It is based on conference papers, previously published chapters, and other previously published articles, working papers, and reports: material that has already benefited from consultation and debate, as is appropriate for a book about aspects of a debate that are the subject of frequent consultation and discussion.
Basic Income: A history
This first comprehensive history of Basic Income, first published in 2021, is now out in paperback.
The publisher says this about the book: 'Presenting a truly comprehensive history of Basic Income, Malcolm Torry explores the evolution of the concept of a regular unconditional income for every individual, as well as examining other types of income as they relate to its history. Examining the beginnings of the modern debate at the end of the eighteenth century right up to the current global discussion, this book draws on a vast array of original historical sources and serves as both an in-depth study of, and introduction to, Basic Income and its history.'
Money for Everyone: Why we need a Citizen's Income was published in 2013: the first general introduction to the subject for over twenty years. Three years later the publisher, Policy Press, asked me for a second edition: but the debate about Basic Income had moved so fast during that time that Money for Everyone was seriously out of date, not only in its detail, but in its structure as well. The question to which that book was addressed was 'Is Basic Income a good idea?' By 2016, questions were as much about feasibility and implementation as they were about desirability. So Why we need a Citizen's Basic Income is an almost entirely different book: hence the new title and subtitle.
Up to date microsimulation research on financially feasible Basic Income schemes for the UK, and the closest we're likely to be able to get to a genuine community-wide Basic Income pilot project.
A response to a report on Welsh Basic Income pilot projects written for the Welsh Government.
The most up to date microsimulation research: A revenue neutral Basic Income scheme is found to be preferable to retention of the £20 pw Universal Credit increase and a Child Benefit increase.
Research in 2020 on a short-term Recovery Basic Income, and on a subsequent permanent Basic Income scheme that would fit all essential feasibility criteria.
This working paper describes the lessons learnt during nearly ten years of microsimulation research, and adds a feasible Basic Income scheme for the UK in 2019.
Research has played a central role in the Basic Income debate in the UK, but research results have not always been treated in the way that they should have been.
The feasibilities of different levels of Basic Income are discussed, and particularly the feasibility of paying a Basic Income at the level of published Minimum Income Standards.
The chapter shows that the ways in which the different elements of a social minimum are delivered are as important as any other aspects
The second edition of the Research Handbook on European Social Security Law contains a chapter on the legal aspects of a European Basic Income