AbstractIncreasing calls for reform to welfare provision have seen growing support forbasic income (BI) - the...
Doing Radical Things Right: Ethical Good Practice for Basic Income Experiments
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Workshop on Guaranteed Income Experiments – February 22-23: Call for papers
"This workshop is presented by the History and Philosophy Department of the University of New Orleans in collaboration...
Call for Papers – Workshop on Guaranteed Income Experiments
Image credit: Canva https://www.canva.com/policies/free-media-license-agreement-2022-01-03/ "This workshop is...
More than 12,000 Californians are getting cash from guaranteed income experiments
Illustration above by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters; iStock "State and local governments, and some private funders,...
$500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments With a Guaranteed Income
An article in the New York Times published February 13 states that "For recipients, it’s a lifeline. For liberal...
Korea: Sea Cucumber Fisheries as Shared Property of Islanders – “rediscovering rural basic income experiments”
Editor’s note: The use of the term ‘basic income’ for the sheme in Janggo Island does not correspond to BIEN’s...
Possibilities and Pitfalls of Basic Income Experiments
This article briefly discusses the findings of my bookA Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers,...
“A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments:” an early version of this book is available for free download
An early version of the book, A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments, is available for free download on my...
Groups calling for basic income experiments spread across the UK
Groups across the UK are calling for pilots of a radical alternative to the current welfare system.
Papers on Experiments in the Basic Income Studies
Ana Helena Palermo Kuss and K. J. Bernhard Neumärker Modelling the Time Allocation Effects of Basic Income Basic...
Social Experiments 101: A Short Primer for UBI Observers
If we can’t answer some key questions, such as how to finance a UBI in a way that wouldn’t make currently low-income people worse off, we shouldn’t implement a UBI at all.
Book Announcement: A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens
Karl Widerquist has published a new book, titled A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers,...
A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens
My new short book, A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens,...
United Kingdom: RSA releases report on how to conduct to Basic Income experiments
The RSA, a UK-based charity that aims to unleash human potential for enterprise and creativity, released a report...
SCOTLAND: An update on UBI experiments
Scottish Parliament building. As reported before on Basic Income News, the Scottish Government has committed to...
Current UBI Experiments: An update for July 2018
[This article is a draft chapter of my book, A Critical Discussion of UBI Experiments, adapted as a blog post] Like...
Italy, Rome 28th of May: The strength of basic income. Technological innovation, new welfare and experiments all around the world
On the the 28th of May, at 17h, Fondazione Basso hosts in via della Dogana Vecchia 5, in Rome, a book presentation and...
New Book: Basic income, the whole world talks about it. Experiences, proposals and experiments.
Basic income, the whole world talks about it. Experiences, proposals and experiments this is the title of a new book...
The Basic Income Guarantee Experiments of the 1970s: a quick summary of results
So many countries are currently conducting or seriously talking about starting Universal Basic Income (UBI)...
Public Reaction to the Basic Income Guarantee Experiments in the 1970s: a case of misunderstanding, misuse, oversimplification, and spin
This post is one of several previewing the book I’m writing on Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments, and it is the...