Basic Income In Japan: Prospects For A Radical Idea In A Transforming Welfare State (Exploring The Basic Income Guarantee)

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.

• • Author: Yannick Vanderborght, Toru Yamamori
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Oct 09, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 288 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 113735657X
• • ISBN-13: 9781137356574