Journal Seventeen

The objective of ensuring a decent quality of life for all citizens is sought through various programs of income guarantees or minimum income.

This paper analyzes various reasons coming from political philosophy and positive law, which can justify the establishment of a universal basic income.

The debate about the possible introduction of a guaranteed basic income and the opportunity for it raises very different problems that go beyond the strictly financial ones, which, while being important, given the scarcity of public resources, are not the only ones to be addressed and, in no case, should they be exclusive.

This paper estimates the costs of basic income and analyses its incentives to conclude that there is an inverse relationship between them.