Suspicious Minds in Basic Income and Conditional Cash Transfers

IF 1 Q3 ECONOMICS

Basic Income Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-02 DOI:10.1515/bis-2021-0014

Facundo García Valverde

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Abstract

Abstract Anti-poverty policies and attitudes of distrust toward the needy share a long history. From the narratives of de Quevedo’s El Buscón, in which beggars are presented as able-bodied individuals making a concerted effort to take advantage of others, to the invasive physical tests and “workhouses” that were part of the English Poor Laws, the poor have long been regarded as deserving careful oversight. Although in increasingly subtle ways, this history continues as part of a popular set of policies in Latin America called “Conditional Cash Transfers,” which make income support conditional on certain behavioral changes. This paper argues that this resumption in recent times is normatively problematic because it harms the beneficiaries’ self-esteem, leading to stereotypes and sociological errors that reproduce social hierarchies. Alternatively, the paper advances a comparative defense of Basic Income on the basis of its lesser-known affinity with non-discriminatory attitudes.

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对基本收入和有条件现金转移持怀疑态度

反贫困政策和对贫困人口的不信任态度有着悠久的历史。从德·克维多的《El Buscón》的叙述中，乞丐被描绘成身体健全的人，共同努力地利用他人，到侵入性的身体检查和英国《济贫法》中的“济贫院”，穷人长期以来一直被视为值得仔细监督的对象。尽管以越来越微妙的方式，这段历史作为拉丁美洲一套流行的政策的一部分继续存在，该政策被称为“有条件现金转移支付”，该政策将某些行为改变作为收入支持的条件。本文认为，最近这种恢复在规范上是有问题的，因为它损害了受益者的自尊，导致了刻板印象和社会学错误，再现了社会等级制度。另外，本文在基本收入与非歧视态度不太为人所知的密切关系的基础上，提出了对基本收入的比较辩护。

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Basic Income Studies ECONOMICS-

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2.40

自引率

18.20%

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期刊介绍： Basic income is a universal income grant available to every citizen without means test or work requirement. Academic discussion of basic income and related policies has been growing in the fields of economics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and public policy over the last few decades — with dozens of journal articles published each year, and basic income constituting the subject of more than 30 books in the last 10 years. In addition, the political discussion of basic income has been expanding through social organizations, NGOs and other advocacy groups. Internationally, recent years have witnessed the endorsement of basic income by grassroots movements as well as government officials in developing countries such as Brazil or South-Africa. As the community of people working on this issue has been expanding all over the world, incorporating grassroots activists, high profile academics — including several Nobel Prize winners in economics — and policymakers, the amount of high quality research on this topic has increased considerably. In the light of such extensive scholarship on this topic, the need to coordinate research efforts through a journal specifically devoted to basic income and cognate policies became pressing. Basic Income Studies (BIS) is the first academic journal to focus specifically on basic income and cognate policies.