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Basic Income in 1848

  • Guido Erreygers and John Cunliffe
Published/Copyright: December 28, 2006
Basic Income Studies
From the journal Basic Income Studies Volume 1 Issue 2

This note introduces a virtually unknown social constitution drafted in Brussels in 1848, in which an unconditional basic income figured prominently. We provide details on the historical and intellectual context in which the proposal originated, and briefly compare it with similar proposals of the same period. In the appendix, we present an English translation of the constitution.

Keywords: Keywords – history of basic income; Belgium; nineteenth century
Published Online: 2006-12-28

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https://doi.org/10.2202/1932-0183.1025
Keywords for this article
Keywords – history of basic income; Belgium; nineteenth century

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Front Matter
  2. Content
  3. Editorial
  4. List of Contributors
  5. Research Article
  6. Reconsidering the Exploitation Objection to Basic Income
  7. Basic Income and the Problem of Cumulative Misfortune
  8. The Relative Cost of a Universal Basic Income and a Negative Income Tax
  9. Research Note
  10. Basic Income in 1848
  11. Debate
  12. Reasons for Launching a Basic Income Experiment
  13. The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment
  14. Lottery Games as a Tool for Empirical Basic Income Research
  15. A Plea for the Use of Laboratory Experiments in Basic Income Research
  16. A Piece of the Puzzle: A Comment on the Basic Income Experiment Debate
  17. Book Review
  18. Review of Ailsa McKay, The Future of Social Security Policy: Women, Work and a Citizens' Basic Income
  19. Review of Clive Lord, A Citizens' Income: A Foundation for a Sustainable World
  20. Review of Russell Muirhead, Just Work
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