Technological Unemployment, Basic Income, and Wellbeing

ISBN-13: 9781032313931 / Twarda / 2023 / 176 str.

Italy) DOrlando Fabio (University of Cassino

Opis

This book adopts an agnostic position on the size of the future impact of technological progress on employment, but proposes a thought experiment built on a full unemployment scenario which focuses on the consequences that these policies might have for people’s wellbeing, with reference to the provision of a Universal Basic Income.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION   CHAPTER 1. THREE WAVES OF TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT   CHAPTER 2. POSSIBLE POLICY SOLUTIONS TO COUNTERACT THE RISE OF TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES   CHAPTER 3. BASIC INCOME   CHAPTER 4. WELLBEING AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS   CHAPTER 5. THE WELLBEING IMPACT OF AN UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME   CHAPTER 6. CONCLUDING REMARKS: AND ALTERNATIVE / COMPLEMENTARY POLICY PROPOSAL

O autorze

Fabio D’Orlando is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy. He studied at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome, IT (Ph.D.), subsequently teaching at the same university, as well as the University of Campobasso, Italy. He also teaches at SIOI, the Italian Society for International Organization, Rome. His research interests are Behavioral Economics, Economics and Psychology, History of Economic Ideas, Classical-type Theory, Technological Unemployment. For Routledge, he is (co-)author of Economic Change and Wellbeing: The True Cost of Creative Destruction and Globalization, written with Francesco Ferrante and Albertina Oliverio.