This special issue of Homo Oeconomicus, edited by Ao Yumin and Ulrich Steinvorth, requests submission of papers answering questions such as:
- What are the reasons to demand a basic income?
- What would be the consequences of its introduction?
- What are the reasons or motives to reject or distrust it?
- Can, or how far can, basic income counteract unemployment?
- Should it, or how far should it, promote a life independent of salaried jobs?
- What kind of activities should basic income promote or can it be expected to promote?
- What should be the amount of basic income?
- What are alternatives to basic income?
- What can established institutions of basic income tell us about its future and possibilities?
Papers can be written both in an academic and in a more popular style accessible to a broader public and apt to impact the public opinion. Proposals are to be sent to aoyumin@gmail.com and ulrich.steinvorth@uni-hamburg.de. The deadline for the papers, which must be preceded by an abstract, are expected for December 1st, 2013.
Homo Oeconomicus, is online at: https://www.homooeconomicus.org/
