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Social Effects of Basic Income

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Mays and Torry discuss the social effects of Basic Income in terms of a safety net that stretches beyond economic security. Such social effects as social cohesion and inclusion, and a sense of community and solidarity, are discussed at the level of the individual, the household, the community, and the society as a whole, and the chapter closes with a study of how a Basic Income would benefit people living with disabilities, again at the individual, household, community, and society levels. The chapter finds that the social principles underlying a Basic Income scheme would affect the scheme’s effects, which means that it is important to establish those principles at the beginning of the design phase; and the chapter suggests that an understanding of the social effects of Basic income could counter normative resistance to the notion of Basic Income.

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    Jennifer Mays

  2. Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, Bath, UK

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Mays, J., Torry, M. (2023). Social Effects of Basic Income. In: Torry, M. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income. Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41001-7_5

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