Universell grundinkomst och den svenska välfärdsstaten: Mot en ny generation av inkomsträttigheter

Abstract

Universal Basic Income and the Swedish Welfare State: Towards a New Generation of Income Rights. This article discusses the political relevance of recent proposals on universal basic income to the Swedish welfare state. I explore powerful arguments in favour of such proposals in this particular institutional context and confront them with two dimensions of the objection of political unfeasibility: (a) that basic income implies more fundamental normative and institutional discontinuity than sustainable implementation allows and (b) that an adequate basic income would be unaffordable. I argue that this objection does not apply to all meaningful basic income schemes. Partial basic income and time-limited basic income promise to bring many advantages of a full basic income without implying a brutal clash with either (a) or (b).