Basic Income in Japan: Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State

Book Overview

Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program in the context of the country's changing welfare state. Vanderborght and Yamamori bring together over a dozen contributors to provide a general overview of the scholarly debate on universal and unconditional basic income, including a foreword by Ronald Dore. Drawing on empirical data on poverty and inequality as well as normative arguments, this balanced approach to a radical idea is essential reading for the study of contemporary Japan.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113735657X
• ISBN13: 9781137356574
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"