Ten years before the current debate took center stage, the journal Connexions published a text by Stéphan Lipiansky that detailed the genesis of the revival of the idea in Europe. We see the first signs of it in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands in the 1970s. The first author to advocate an unconditional income in Paine’s sense, i.e., one intended for all citizens without exception, was the Dutch doctor JP Kuiper (1975). The French economist René Passet followed suit in 1979. In his book Les chemins du Paradis (1983) [ Paths to Paradise: On the Liberation from […]
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