The Debate Over the Definition of Basic Income

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Abstract This article doesn’t take a position on the question what is the best way to defineBasic Income. Instead, it argues that a family of related concepts are identified bytwo crucial questions: is the concept restricted to a non-means-tested grantdelivered to high- and low-income people alike? And is it restricted to a grant thatis large enough to live on? Although we can’t get away from the question of exactlyhow do we define Basic Income, controversies about the family of related conceptsidentified by these two questions cannot be resolved by any organization clarifyingits definition of […]

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