SUMMARY: This news outlet reviews four books about income inequality, one of which (Atkinson’s Inequality: What Is To Be Done?) proposes basic income as a solution for the growing inequality.
Drew Nelles, “Review: Four new books, including Joseph Stiglitz’s The Great Divide, look at economic inequality” The Globe and Mail. May 29, 2015.
https://www.tony-atkinson.com/new-book-inequality-what-can-be-done/
Sir Anthony Atkinson, a long-standing expert on inequality and basic income advocate, has released a book which brings together several decades of theoretical and practical experience in the field.
“Inequality: What Can Be Done?” serves both as a program for change and “a voice of hope and informed optimism about the possibilities for political action”, according to publishers Harvard University Press.
The book presents a comprehensive set of policies that Atkinson believes are the right choices for bringing about a genuine shift in the income distributions of developed countries.
Anthony B. Atkinson, “Inequality: What Can Be Done?“, Harvard University Press, May 2015
Santens discusses basic income’s impact on income inequality by analyzing its effect on Gini coefficients. He concludes that a basic income directly reduces income inequality and can help push the U.S.’s Gini coefficient closer to those of the Nordic countries.
Scott Santens, “Does Guaranteeing a Basic Income Reduce Income Inequality?”, 1 December 2014.
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Peter Barnes, “Alaska Bolstered Its Economy and Curbed Inequality—By Paying Everyone Thousands in Oil Dividends Every Year” Yes! Magazine. February 3, 2015
This article considers the movement for a universal basic income in Canada and reports that the issues in implementing such a plan are not economic ones but political ones. The issue lies in mobilizing the political capital necessary to give the policy liftoff.
Laura Beaulne Stuebing, “Politics, not economics, the main hurdle to addressing income inequality: expert”, Yahoo! News Canada, 11 March 2015.
