Abstract A central task in efforts to identify pathways to ecologically and socially sustainable economies is to reduce inequality and poverty while reducing material consumption, which has recently inspired future post-growth scenarios. We build a model to explore the potential of a universal basic income (UBI) to serve these objectives. Starting from the observation that post-growth trajectories can take very different forms we analyze UBI in two scenarios advanced in the literature. Comparing UBI in a “local self-sufficiency” economy to a UBI in an “automation” economy, we show that although both scenarios satisfy central sustainability criteria, the impact of a UBI would differ greatly between these contexts. Our analysis shows that a UBI is less compatible with a labor-intensive local self-sufficiency economy than a capital-intensive, high tech economy. We conclude that the feasibility and attractiveness of a UBI in a post-growth scenario depends greatly on the specific characteristics of the economy.

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后增长经济体的基本收入和社会可持续性

摘要 确定生态和社会可持续经济途径的一项核心任务是减少不平等和贫困，同时减少物质消耗，这最近激发了未来的后增长情景。我们构建了一个模型来探索全民基本收入 (UBI) 服务于这些目标的潜力。从观察后增长轨迹可以采取非常不同的形式开始，我们在文献中提出的两种情况下分析 UBI。将“本地自给自足”经济中的 UBI 与“自动化”经济中的 UBI 进行比较，我们表明，尽管这两种情景都满足核心可持续性标准，但 UBI 的影响在这些背景下会有很大差异。我们的分析表明，与资本密集型的​​本地自给自足经济相比，UBI 与本地自给自足的经济不相容。高科技经济。我们得出结论，UBI 在后增长情景中的可行性和吸引力在很大程度上取决于经济的具体特征。