Books You Can't Miss While Learning About Basic Income
A non-exhaustive list of recommendations to add to your reading list
NOTE: These books may be available at your local library or bookstore. We’ve also included online purchase links (non-affiliate) under each title.
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen by Guy Standing
(Blackwells | ThriftBooks)
Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything by Matthew Johnson, Kate Pickett, Daniel Nettle, Howard Reed & Elliott Johnson
(Barnes & Noble | Better World Books | Bookshop.org | ThriftBooks)
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
(Barnes & Noble | Better World Books | Bookshop.org | ThriftBooks)
The Coming Age of Imagination: How Universal Basic Income Will Lead to an Explosion of Creativity by Phil Teer
(AbeBooks | ThriftBooks)
The Case for Basic Income: Freedom, Security, Justice by Jamie Swift & Elain Power
(Books-A-Million | Bookshop.org | ThriftBooks)
The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All by Martin Sandbu
(Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org | ThriftBooks)
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World by Annie Lowrey
(Barnes & Noble | Better World Books | Bookshop.org | ThriftBooks)
The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy by Natalie Foster
(Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | Bookshop.org)
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State by Charles Murray
(Bookshop.org | ThriftBooks)
Let There Be Money: Understanding Modern Monetary Theory and Basic Income by Scott Santens
(AbeBooks | Amazon)
Our Future: The Basic Income Plan for Peace, Justice, Liberty, Democracy, and Personal Dignity by Steven Shafarman
(ThriftBooks)
Quest for Dignity: The Right to Basic Income by Baljinder Sharma
(Amazon)
Raising the Floor: How Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream by Andy Stern & Lee Kravitz
(Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org | ThriftBooks)
Unconditional Freedom: Universal Basic Income and Social Power by David Casassas
(Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org | ThriftBooks)
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman
(Barnes & Noble | Better World Books | Bookshop.org | ThriftBooks)
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
(Barnes & Noble | Better World Books | Bookshop.org | ThriftBooks)
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