BIG Bibliography

Proposals for a basic income guarantee or something very much like it have been made by many different authors from very different backgrounds. Most BIG proposals have been made in the last 40 years, but some, such as Thomas Paine's "Agrarian Justice," date back more than 200 years. For a review of sixteen of the most recent books on the basic income guarantee see Karl Widerquist, "Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income." (A shorter version appeared in the September 2001 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues) and "Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income, Part II."(A shorter version appeared in the Journal of Economic Issues, December 2001).

BIG Bibliography

This 1.5 megabite file contains an alphabetical list over more than 2000 books and articles about or relating to the basic income guarantee.

Books About the Basic Income Guarantee.

• Viabilitat i impacte d'una Renda Bàsica de Ciutadania per a Catalunya
  J. Arcarons, À. Boso, J. A. Noguera, and D. Raventós, 2005

• "Redesigning Distribution: Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones of a More Egalitarian Capitalism"
  Special issue of Politics & Society, Vol. 32 Erik Olin Wright, 2004

• A Basic Income Grant for South Africa
  Guy Standing and Michael Samson, 2004

• Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice.
  L. Groot, 2004

• Un reddito per tutti. Un'introduzione al basic income.
  C. Del Bo, 2004

• The Origins of Universal Grants: An Anthology of Historical Writings on Basic Capital and Basic Income
  J. Cunliffe, and G. Erreygers (eds.), 2004

• Renda de Cidadania: a Saída é Pela Porta
  E. M. Suplicy, 2004

• The Civic Minimum: On the Rights and Obligations of Economic Citizenship
  S. White, 2003

• Real Libertarianism Assessed: Political Theory after Van Parijs
  A. Reeve and A. Williams, 2003

• The Ethics of Stakeholding
  K. Dowding, J. De Wispelaere, and S. White, 2003

• A Citizens' Income: A Foundation for a Sustainable World
  Clive Lord, 2003

• Beyond the New Paternalism. Basic Security as Equality
  Guy Standing, 2002

• What's Wrong with a Free Lunch?
  Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, Beacon Press, 2001

• Basic Income on the Agenda: Policy Objectives and Political Chances
  Loek Groot and Prof Robert Jan van der Veen, Amsterdam University Press, 2001

• Healing Politics: Citizen Policies and the Pursuit of Happiness
  Shafarman, Steve, Xlibris, 2000.

• Basic Income: Economic Security for All Canadians
  Sally Lerner, Charles M. A. Clark, and W. Robert Needham. Between the Lines. 1999

• Freedom and Security: An Introduction to the Basic Income Debate
  Tony Fitzpatrick, St. Martin's Press, Inc. 1999

• The Stakeholder Society
  Ackerman, Bruce and Anne Alstott, Yale University Press, 1999

• The National Tax Rebate: A New America with Less Government
  Leonard M. Greene. 1998

• "...And Economic Justice for All" Welfare Reform for the 21st Century
  Michael L. Murray. 1997

• The Benefit of Another's Pains: Parasitism, Scarcity, Basic Income
  Gijs Van Donselaar. 1997. (This book argues against basic income.)

• The $30,000 Solution: A guaranteed annual income for every American
  Robert R. Schutz. 1996

• Public Economics in Action: The Basic Income/Flat Tax Proposal
  A. B. Atkinson. 1995

• Real Freedom for All: What (if anything) can justify capitalism?
  Philippe Van Parijs. 1995

• Towards An Adequate Income For All
  Brigid Reynolds & Sean Healy (eds.), Dublin: Justice Commission of the Conference of Religious of Ireland, 1994.

• Arguing For Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform
  Philippe Van Parijs (ed.), London: Verso, 1992

• Beyond the Welfare State. An examination of basic incomes in a market economy
  Samuel Brittan & Steven Webb, Hume Paper n°17, 1990

• Instead of the Dole
  Hermione Parker, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1989

• Basic Income. Freedom from Poverty, Freedom to Work
  Tony Walter, London & New York: Marion Boyars, 1989

• Basic Income European Network: Proceedings of the second international conferences on Basic Income
  Walter Van Trier (ed.), Antwerp (Belgium), 1988

• Basic Income European Network: Proceedings of the first international conferences on Basic Income
  Anne Miller (ed.), Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 1986

• Guaranteed Income: The Right to Economic Security
  Allan Sheahen, GAIN Publications, 1983

• Free Enterprise Without Poverty
  Leonard M. Greene, W. W. Norton & Company, 1981

• Welfare: The Elusive Consensus: Where We Are, How We Got There, and What's Ahead
  Salamon, Lester M., Praeger Publishers, 1978

• Nixon's Good Deed: Welfare Reform
  Burke, Vincent J. and Burke, Vee, New York, Columbia University Press, 1974

• Income Security for Americans: Recommendations of the Public Welfare Study
  U. S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1974

• The Nixon Guaranteed Income Proposal: Substance and Process in Policy Change
  Bowler, M. Kenneth, Cambridge, Mass., Ballinger, 1974

• The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan
  Daniel P. Moynihan, New York, Random House, 1973

• Poverty Policy: A Compendium of Cash Transfer Proposals
  Marmor, Theodore M. ed., Chicago, Aldine, 1971

• Ends and Means of Reducing Income Poverty
  Lampman, Robert J., Chicago, Markham,1971

• Background Papers
  President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1970

• Poverty Amid Plenty
  President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1969

• Guaranteed Annual Income: The Moral Issues
  Philip Wogaman, Abingdon Press, 1968

• Negative Taxes and the Poverty Problem
  Cristopher Green, Brookings Institution, 1967

• The Guaranteed Income: Next Step in Socioeconomic Evolution?
  Robert Theobald (ed.) Doubleday anchor books, 1966

• Free Men and Free Markets
  Robert Theobald, Anchor books, 1963

• Capitalism and Freedom
  Milton and Rose Friedman, University of Chicago Press, 1962 (This book has only one chapter on the Negative Income Tax, but it was highly influential.)

• The Challenge of Abundance
  Theobald, Robert. New York, NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1961