... Recherches, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, no. 16. Brussels:Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis. Van Parijs, P. 1992 . Competing Justifications of Basic Income. In Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform , edited by P. Van Parijs, 3 -43. London: Verso. Van Trier, W...

...Alberto Tena Camporesi Abstract In current research, there is a widespread idea that the history of the universal basic income proposal begins with Thomas Paine and his famous pamphlet Agrarian Justice , published in Paris in 1797 in the context of the French Revolution and under its intellectual...

... central to the British welfare state since the 1940s, given an ageing population and the dominance of the social security budget by pension payments. However, the question of the income of low-paid workers raised the most complex, and in the long-run even more important, problems. The basic Beveridge...

... of François Huet's Doctrine of Property Rights. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 6.4 : 581 -605. ____. 2003 . “Basic income? Basic capital!” Origins and Issues of a Debate. Journal of Political Philosophy 11.1 : 89 -110. Dalton, Hugh. 1920 . Some Aspects of the Inequality...

... and universal safety net. In contrast to what is today known as universal basic income, these plans exclude any other kind of income or beneŒts (e.g., one could not receive these beneŒts while being employed) but were however shaped by the same idea to directly establish a Žoor of income rather than to act...

...,” or “basic income,” or “citizen’s income” being put forward by writers such as J. E. Meade, Andre Gorz, and David Purdy could be interpreted as close relatives of a Douglas national dividend.I3 Meade proposes a “tax-free Social Dividend or national dividend or Basic Income or. . . Citizen’s Income...

... (although he did not explicitly refer to Petty), King estimated “the Annual Income and Expense of the Nation as it stood in 1688” and the excess of income over expense, or “yearly increase of wealth thus filling a gap in Petty’s quantitative work. King’s basic method was to estimate for more...

... edited (with John Cunliffe) The Origins of Uni- versal Grants: An Anthology of Historical Writings on Basic Capital and Basic Income (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Harald Hagemann is a professor of economic theory at the University of Hohen- heim, Stuttgart, Germany. He is a life member of Clare Hall...

... may also be paired with a policy focus on such cash-income oriented instruments as guaranteed minimum income, wage subsidies or in-work tax credits, living wages or basic income. Here the connection is not one of logical necessity, but rather that the different ideas belong to a shared discursive...

... cycles. He would agree only with a proposition that there should be fuller integration of monetary phenom- ena into the basically income-expenditure models. For Arthur Okun, the estimate of the money multiplier effect on national income of an increase in money was unbelievable, given the much smaller...

..., trades, and other non- agricultural earnings to attain the economic equilibrium with family demand not fully met by farm income” (94).19In other words, Chay- anov’s basic theory of farm households is based on the assumption of a labor market that offers employment and income to farm labor...

..., the argument that demand for basic commodities such as food and shelter is primarily a function of income levels rather than prevailing prices. However, other parametric explanations were consistent with neoclas- sical assumptions: even rational economic actors in well-functioning markets may...

..., 31 According to Patinkin, these basic properties are (a) the marginal propensity to consume is less than one, and (b) this marginal propensity “decreases with income, which is directly related to the level of employment.” Patinkin states that “neither of these basic properties is depicted...

... According to Patinkin, these basic properties are (a) the marginal propensity to consume is less than one, and (b) this marginal propensity “decreases with income, which is directly related to the level of employment.” Patinkin states that “neither of these basic properties is depicted...

... to a critique of Buchanan’s main argument. Professor Buchanan goes on to argue that the current (Hicksian) “orthodoxy” befuddles the issue in always explaining the backbend- ing segment of the labor supply curve by invoking a negative income- effect (from a wage rise) of sufficient magnitude...

... through the substitution effect. Although the Cairnes correspondence cited above indicates a basic grasp of the substi- tution effect, this recognition is absent from Mill’s Principles, leaving his explanation of the demand curve heavily dependent on the income effect of price changes...

..., and the provision of basic needs. In addition, the article reveals how Seers’s work with the Institute for Development Studies reshaped the production of development knowledge. At the institute, Seers cultivated a multidisciplinary approach to development studies that linked economic, sociological, historical...

... of each good because of marginal changes in the MRS. He defined them— in elasticity form, to preserve the independence with respect to units of measure—as the “coefficients of income-variation” (Hicks and Allen 1934, 199). These indices were to play the part of the basic premises obtained from...

...” and then defining the following basic variables of the analysis, where all variables refer to total or aggregate quantities: 33 34 E= current money income = factor earnings = costs of pro- duction; all exclusive of abnormal profits; o...

... in 1947, in which he first proposed that the study of national income should be ap- proached from the perspective of social accounting. Stone adopted, as his working system, definitions for three basic forms of economic ac- tivity: production, consumption, and accumulation—which became four when...