Book Review: Money for Everyone, Why We Need a Citizen's Income
| Author | Varvara Lalioti |
| DOI | 10.1177/138826271501700109 |
| Published date | 01 March 2015 |
| Date | 01 March 2015 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
Th
e book provides a very comprehensive overview of international social security
standards and recent developments in social security strategies. It should contribute
to a discussion of the further development of standards and the realisation of a right
to social security for all. It also serves as valuable research instrument and will be of
great interest for scholars in legal studies, social sciences and economics.
REFERENCES
Dijkhoff, T. (2011) International Social Security Standards in the European Union,
Antwerp: Intersentia.
Pennings, F. (2013) ‘Social Security’, in: Greve, Bent (ed.), Routledge Handbook of
the Welfare State, Routledge.
Younes Charbegoo
Ph.D. Scholar (International Law)
Jamia Millia University
New Delhi, India
Younes Charbegoo, an Iranian National, received his B.A. in Law from Mazandaran
University, Iran and his M.A. in International Law from Azad Tehran Markaz, Iran.
He is currently a Ph.D. Scholar in Jamia Millia Islamia University. His interests
include International Social Security Law, International Labour Law, Social Security
Law and International Law.
Malcolm Torry, Money for Everyone. Why We Need a Citizen’s Income, Policy Press:
University of Bristol, 2013, 304 pp., ISBN 978-1-44731-125-6
With an impressive interdisciplinary background in mathematics, theology,
philosophy, economics, management, and social policy, Malcolm Torry, Director
of the Citizen’s Income Trust and Vicar of Holy Trinity, Greenwich Peninsula, has
written an impressive and timely book on the need for citizen’s income (sometimes
called basic income). Welfare provisions are currently a hot topic, given the crisis that
has hit hard within the Eurozone (especially in the countries at its periphery) and
that has seen a serious retrenchment in public expenditure. Moreover, the growing
recognition that poverty and unemployment rates are unacceptably high has revived
debate about schemes considered to have strong potential as remedial measures, such
as citizen’s income. Th
is discussion promises possible benefi ts for social inclusion and
cohesion at both national and European levels.
As correctly advertised by the publisher,...
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