Retrospective: A Capitalist Road to Communism - Twenty Years After
Introduction
Retrospective: A Capitalist Road to Communism - Twenty Years After
BIS launches its inaugural issue with a retrospective on "A Capitalist Road to Communism", the article that put basic income firmly on the map in academic and policy circles when it was first published in 1986. BIS reprints the original article with a new set of six comments and a specially written reply by the authors, Robert van der Veen and Philippe Van Parijs.
Front Matter
Launching a Basic Income Journal
The Editors
List of Contributors
The Editors
Research Articles
The Failure of Workfare: Another Reason for a Basic Income Guarantee
Joel Handler and Amanda Sheely Babcock
Basic Income and Migration Policy: A Moral Dilemma?
Michael W. Howard
Why Trade Unions Oppose Basic Income
Yannick Vanderborght
A Capitalist Road to Communism
Robert J. van der Veen and Philippe Van Parijs
Debates
Notes on the Universal Grant Proposal
G.A. Cohen
Basic Income and the Value of Occupational Choice
Andrew Williams
How Global is the Capitalist Road to Communism?
Doris Schroeder
A Scandalous Proposal: Ethical Attractions of Basic Income
Catriona McKinnon
Capitalism Unbound? Peril and Promise of Basic Income
Harry F. Dahms
Basic Income as a Socialist Project
Erik Olin Wright
A Capitalist Road to Global Justice: Reply to Another Six Critics
Robert J. van der Veen and Philippe Van Parijs
Book Reviews
Review of Tony Fitzpatrick and Michael Cahill, Environment and Welfare: Towards a Green Social Policy
Alexandra Couto
Review of Brian Barry, Why Social Justice Matters
Colin Farrelly
Review of Guy Standing, Beyond the New Paternalism: Basic Security as Equality
Cristian Pérez Muñoz