T he emergency payments to individuals that many governments have made are a path to a universal basic income.

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ポスト・コロナの世界経済はこうなる──著名エコノミスト9人が語る

このパンデミックは、新しい政治的・社会的枠組みを生み出す可能性もある。ここ数年、社会保障政策としてベーシックインカムの導入が話題になってきたが、本格的な議論は進んでこなかった。ところがコロナ危機で、多くの国は仕事を失った人に一律の緊急支援金を給付しようとしている。これは平時のベーシックインカムの呼び水になるかもしれない。

Robert J. Shiller
Perhaps the emergency payments to individuals that many governments have made are a path to a universal basic income. In the United States, better and more universal health insurance might just have been given new impetus. Since we are all on the same side in this war, we may now find the motivation to build new international institutions allowing better risk-sharing among countries. The wartime atmosphere will fade again, but these new institutions would persist.

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