Basic Income

About the Book: 

Can we afford to implement a basic income?

In this cost of living crisis, can we afford not to?

This clear and concise book presents readers across the world with the fundamentals of basic income at an accessible level. It also provides a useful resource for both opinion-formers and activists, helping them to refine their arguments about the complexities hidden within this seemingly simple concept.

The dream of true wellbeing and financial security for all could become a reality.

Reviews: 

I do not believe it is possible to find another book on ubi written so simply and yet with so much content. VALEERIJA KOROŠEC, sociologist, social policy specialist, Slovenia

As well as introducing and advocating for a basic income for all with her usual passion and commitment, Annie Miller presents an objective, robust and rigorous analysis and prescription for how a UBI could be launched to the benefit of all in society, and in the economy. An essential read and handbook wherever you are. PROFESSOR MIKE DANSON, Chair of Basic Income Network Scotland

An invaluable guide to the concepts and jargon associated with debates on welfare reform, this book will be appreciated by students of social security systems and their teachers, as well as providing a succinct and clear guide for campaigners. It is particularly useful in an era when terms like minimum income guarantees, negative income tax and tax credits are often poorly understood by non-experts. ANNE GRAY, Trustee of Citizen’s Basic Income Trust

About the Author:

ANNIE MILLER was born in England to a Scottish father. She is very proud of her Scottish heritage, and has lived in Scotland since 1969. Though she is now retired, she spent over 20 years lecturing in the Department of Economics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and during that time co-edited A Modern Guide to Economic Thought: an introduction to Comparative Schools of Thought in Economics. Through her long career, Miller has dedicated much of her time and research to Basic Income (also known as Citizen’s Income), becoming an expert in the field. She has presented papers on the issue at eight of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)’s biannual congresses, including ones in Barcelona, Munich and Montreal. She also co-founded in 1984 the Basic Income Research Group, now the Citizen’s Income Trust (CIT), of which she has been Chair since 2001. As recently as 2014 Miller was a keynote speaker at a round-table discussion in the Scottish Parliament on BI. Miller lives in Edinburgh.