Economic Offramp: How a Guaranteed Livable Income Can Get Us Off the Road to Destruction and Onto a Livable Future – by C.A. Delle.
2023 – Non-fiction – Published by 3 Penny Publishing.
Cover by Megan Barker Design
By now everyone must be feeling exhausted by the endless number of books, articles, and documentaries about all the problems confronting humanity and our ecosystem.
Instead of adding to this pile, Economic Offramp advocates an urgently needed practical and doable economic innovation: a guaranteed livable income (aka universal basic income).
Each chapter looks at how a GLI can have a positive impact on health, environment, democracy, and future problem-solving while at the same time maximizing personal freedom.
Economic Offramp Book – introduction excerpt
Guaranteed Livable Income is an economic SHIFT that allows the economic system to smoothly move from an exclusive emphasis on economic growth to a livable economy that conserves natural (and human) resources. It would enhance but not replace essential public services such as healthcare.
A GLI is a simple solution that embraces and enhances individual freedom, health, democracy, education, skills, problem-solving, innovation, and the environment.
Without it? People are forced to choose between doing any kind of job, including those that are harmful, or they will face critical deprivation (in one form or another).
Fear of poverty stifles the best in people and brings out the worst. A society that tolerates widespread poverty pays a high price in both visible and invisible ways. Poverty is a calamity that intersects and underpins all other social and environmental problems and makes them worse.
A GLI uniquely creates conditions for both maximum social solidarity and maximum individual freedom. It would give people a sense of belonging and dignity. It would complement many social and community projects. Most importantly, a GLI would permit us to respond quickly and creatively to problems as they arise.
In the future, the particulars of a GLI may also change; however, the principle of a GLI—guaranteed access to what we need for health, life, and dignity—will not.
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Economic Offramp book ISBNs:
Title: Economic Offramp
Subtitle: How a Guaranteed Livable Income Can Get Us Off the Road to Destruction and Onto a Livable Future
EBOOK 978-0-9920897-4-0
PDF 978-0-9920897-5-7
PAPERBACK 978-0-9920897-6-4
About the Author: C.A. Delle has been involved with the concept of a guaranteed livable income since the mid-1990s. Outside of academia, her research includes firsthand and advocacy experience with the welfare system during the neoliberal cutbacks in British Columbia, Canada. Learning about the experiences and lives of fellow “nobodies” caught in the gears of a dysfunctional economic system is what led her to focus on this topic. Originally from rural Northern Alberta, she currently resides on Vancouver Island.
Audiobook: There is no audiobook available, however, if you have an android device, you can use Google Play Books and find the “read aloud” option under settings.
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