Basic Income in Japan Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vanderborght, Yannick. (Editor), Yamamori, Toru. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
• Series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
• Subjects: Economic theory.; Welfare economics.; Public finance.; Labor economics.; Development economics.; Welfare state.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Labor Economics.; Public Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice.; Politics of the Welfare State.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: XIII, 275 p. 19 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781137348081

Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program in the context of the country's changing welfare state. Vanderborght and Yamamori bring together over a dozen contributors to provide a general overview of the scholarly debate on universal and unconditional basic income, including a foreword by Ronald Dore. Drawing on empirical data on poverty and inequality as well as normative arguments, this balanced approach to a radical idea is essential reading for the study of contemporary Japan.