Friday, August 21, 2009

Interesting Paper on Basic Income

If only academics could learn to put interesting ideas into more vivid prose! This really interesting article by Claus Offe contains a thoughtful analysis of the ways that a basic guaranteed income affects labor contracts. Translation: If everyone was guaranteed a minimum income, would they all just stop working? And how would this affect relationships between workers and employers? For my money, it's worth trekking through the dense prose to get to the relevant ideas.
http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?context=bis&article=1100&date=&mt=MTI1MDcxMjMyMA==&a

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