Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World - Paperback

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Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World - Paperback

Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World - Paperback

by Annie Lowrey
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Book Overview

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Shortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income--a stipend given to every citizen--and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.

Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time. Futurists, radicals, libertarians, socialists, union representatives, feminists, conservatives, Bernie supporters, development economists, child-care workers, welfare recipients, and politicians from India to Finland to Canada to Mexico--all are talking about UBI.

In this sparkling and provocative book, economics writer Annie Lowrey examines the UBI movement from many angles. She travels to Kenya to see how a UBI is lifting the poorest people on earth out of destitution, India to see how inefficient government programs are failing the poor, South Korea to interrogate UBI's intellectual pedigree, and Silicon Valley to meet the tech titans financing UBI pilots in expectation of a world with advanced artificial intelligence and little need for human labor.

Lowrey explores the potential of such a sweeping policy and the challenges the movement faces, among them contradictory aims, uncomfortable costs, and, most powerfully, the entrenched belief that no one should get something for nothing. In the end, she shows how this arcane policy has the potential to solve some of our most intractable economic problems, while offering a new vision of citizenship and a firmer foundation for our society in this age of turbulence and marvels.
ISBN9781524758776
Author Annie Lowrey
PublisherCrown Publishing Group (NY)
GenreNews & politics, Education, and Business
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World - Paperback

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About Annie Lowrey

Annie Lowrey is a contributing editor for The Atlantic. A former writer for the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, and Slate, among other publications, she is a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. Lowrey lives in Washington, DC.

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