New issue of "Research Special" has been published - "Basic Income"
The current Research Special sheds light on the ongoing discussion about basic income as it has been conducted for approximately the last decade in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The social science research projects and publications from the German speaking areas on this topic which are documented in SOFIS (Social Sciences Research Information System) and SOLIS (Social Science Literature Information System) form the basis of reflections on this discussion. Amongst the publications collected here there are also those summarizing the discussion of the topic since the second half of the 1970s.
A concept of performance so broadly defined implies the question of whether there can be a performance or even unconditional basic income (in the sense of having done nothing to receive it). Or asked the other way around: If no member of society can live without doing anything for themselves, for their own interests and thereby equally also something valuable for society, wouldn’t there then as a logical consequence be the claim, of the rights of individuals to a lifelong existence securing and essentially degree of freedom for the self-unfolding of individually guaranteeing – however structured – basic income from the society for this basic activity without a formal labor contract? But just how helpful is such a broad concept of performance? Is it theoretically and practically at all doable? The publications and research projects presented here have approaches for controversial answers to these questions ready.
