Technological Unemployment, Basic Income, and Well-Being

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Fabio D'Orlando, Fabio (University of Cassino D''orlando
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032313948
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231394-8
• Pagine: 184
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Economic Policy
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Labour / income economics, Public Administration, Political Economy, Economics of industrial organisation, Employment & Unemployment, Economics of industrial organization