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- Title
Basic Income and Social Sustainability in Post-Growth Economies.
- Authors
Malmaeus, Mikael; Alfredsson, Eva; Birnbaum, Simon
- Abstract
A central task in efforts to identify pathways to ecologically and socially sustainable economies is to reduce inequality and poverty while reducing material consumption, which has recently inspired future post-growth scenarios. We build a model to explore the potential of a universal basic income (UBI) to serve these objectives. Starting from the observation that post-growth trajectories can take very different forms we analyze UBI in two scenarios advanced in the literature. Comparing UBI in a "local self-sufficiency" economy to a UBI in an "automation" economy, we show that although both scenarios satisfy central sustainability criteria, the impact of a UBI would differ greatly between these contexts. Our analysis shows that a UBI is less compatible with a labor-intensive local self-sufficiency economy than a capital-intensive, high tech economy. We conclude that the feasibility and attractiveness of a UBI in a post-growth scenario depends greatly on the specific characteristics of the economy.
- Subjects
BASIC income; SOCIAL sustainability; HIGH technology; SELF-reliant living
- Publication
Basic Income Studies, 2020, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2194-6094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bis-2019-0029