Full Emplyment versus Income Maintenence: Some Reflections on the Macroeconomic and Structural Implications of a Guaranteed Income Program for Canada

Abstract

As a consequence of the most severe recession since the 1930s, neo-conservative forces in Canada as elsewhere have increasingly united during the 1980s around the need to dismantle the Keynesian welfare state, a state shaped by the socio-political struggles of the last half century.