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Introduction / Malcom Torry -- The definition and characteristics of basic income / Malcolm Torry -- Three waves of basic income support / Karl Widerquist -- Employment market effects of basic income / Richard Gilbert, Ursula Huws and Gunmin Yi -- Social effects of basic income / Jenni Mays -- Some effects of basic income on economic variables / Meghnad Desai and Ana Helena Palermo -- Ecological effects of basic income / Michael W. Howard, Jorge Pinto and Ulrich Schachtschneider -- The gender effects of basic income / Annie Miller, Toru Yamamori and Almaz Zelleke -- Feasibility and implementation / Malcolm Torry -- Alternative funding methods / Julio Andrade, Geoff Crocker and Stewart Lansley -- Analysis of the financial effects of basic income / Gareth Morgan, Howard Reed and Malcolm Torry -- Alternatives to basic income / Benjamin Leff, Andrew Percy, Michael Story and Maciej Szlinder -- Framing basic income : comparing media framing of basic income in Canada, Finland and Spain / Johanna Perkiö, Leire Rincon and Jenna van Draanen -- The philosophy and political economy of basic income revisited / Louise Haagh -- The negative income tax experiments of the 1970s / Karl Widerquist -- Citizen's basic income in Brazil : from bolso familia to pilot experiments, with an appendix : from local to national : Mexico City and basic income, by Pablo Yanes / Maria Ozanira de Silva e Silva and Valeria Ferreira Santos de Almada Lima -- Basic income by default : lessons from Iran's 'cash subsidy' programme / Massoud Karshenas and Hamid Tabatabai -- The Namibia basic income grant pilot / Claudia Haarmann, Dirk Haarmann and Nicoli Nattrass -- Pilots, evidence and politics : the basic income debate in India / Sarath Davala -- A variety of experiments / Julen Bollain, Loek Groot, Annie Miller, Enno Schmidt, Enkeleida Tahiraj, Timo Verlaat and Gunmin Yi -- Libertarian perspectives on basic income / Miranda Perry Fleischer and Otto Lehto -- Socialist arguments for basic income / David Casassas, Daniel Raventos and Maciej Szlinder -- Neither left nor right / Joe Crisp and Luke Martinelli -- Trade unions and basic income / Troy Henderson and John Quiggin -- The ethics of basic income / Simon Birnbaum -- Tentative conclusions / Malcolm Torry.