功能金融与全民基本收入的可持续性

IF 1 Q3 ECONOMICS

Basic Income Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI:10.1515/bis-2023-0024

Karl Widerquist

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摘要

"功能金融 "是后凯恩斯学派的一种经济理论。特别是以现代货币理论（MMT）的形式，它已经开始对有关全民基本收入（UBI）的辩论产生两种巨大但相反的影响。一些人以夸张的方式阐述 MMT，暗示政府可以在 UBI 或其他任何事情上尽情挥霍，而无需加税或借钱，就好像政府支出没有任何限制一样。还有一些人在引用 MMT 的同时，认为任何维持适度的全民医保水平的努力都是不可持续的。本文讨论了功能金融学对全民医保的成本和可持续性的影响，认为这两种夸大的影响都不正确。MMT 并没有让我们不必担心如何用税收来支持全民医保，但也没有让我们有理由相信全民医保的可持续性会降低。

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Functional Finance and the Sustainability of Universal Basic Income

“Functional finance” is an economic theory within the Post Keynesian school of thought. Especially in the form of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), it has begun to have two big but opposite effects on the debate over Universal Basic Income (UBI). Some people state MMT in an exaggerated way that implies the government can spend all it wants on UBI or anything else without ever raising taxes or borrowing money as if government spending had no limits of any kind. Other people refer to MMT while arguing that any effort to maintain a livable level of UBI is unsustainable. This article discusses the functional finance implications for the cost and sustainability of UBI, arguing that neither of those exaggerated implications are correct. MMT doesn’t free us for the concern for how to support UBI with taxes, but neither does it give reason to believe UBI is any less sustainable.

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Basic Income Studies ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

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.