Research
Many BIEN members are academics and publish papers on basic income or related topics. Research on basic income is fostered by the BIEN Congresses. This page indexes most of the papers.
BIEN 2018, Tampere
Papers from the 2018 BIEN Congress in Tampere, Finland are currently being collected and will be uploaded by the end of September.
Videos of the plenary sessions are viewable on YouTube.
BIEN 2017, Lisbon
This table contains the papers uploaded to the congress website prior to the congress. If other authors submit their papers then they will be added to this list.
Videos are available of many of the congress sessions. Click here to see them.
BIEN 2016, Seoul
The Proceedings of the 2016 congress are contained in a single document, in which can be found plenary session addresses and parallel session papers. Click here to download the document.
BIEN 2014, Montréal
BIEN 2012, Munich
BIEN2010, São Paulo
| Author | |
| Borja Barragué | |
| Michèle Billoré | |
| Gianluca Busilacchi |
BIEN 2008, Dublin
BIEN 2006, Cape Town
BIEN 2004, Barcelona
BIEN 2002, Geneva
BIEN 2000, Berlin
BIEN 1998, Amsterdam
| Name | Paper |
| Andersson, Jan-Otto (SUO) | The History of an Idea: Why did Basic Income Thrill the Finns, but not the Swedes? (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) |
| Balfour, Christopher (UK) | Selling Basic Income to UK Conservatives |
| Borovali, Murat (UK) | Self-Ownership, Private Property, and Unconditional Income: A Variation on the Georgist Theme |
| Chapman, David (UK) | Reforming the tax and benefit system to reduce unemployment |
| Chiappero, E. (IT), with M. Serati & F. Silva | Basic income: an insidious trap or a fruitful chance for the Italian labour market? |
| Christensen, Erik (DK) | An analysis of the Danish political debate on Citizen’s Income in the period 1977-97 |
| Clark, Charles (US), with Catherine Kavanagh | Answering the Economic Questions and Objections to a Basic Income |
| Cunliffe, John (UK), with Guido Erreyghers | Basic Endowments and Basic Income: Some Belgian Precursors |
| De Beer, Paul (NL) | In search of the double-edged sword (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) |
| De Beer, Paul (NL), with Loek Groot | Why launch a basic income experiment? |
| De Wispelaere, Jurgen (B) | Job Rights, Reciprocity, and the Constitutional Approach to Basic Income |
| Duboin, Marie-Louise (F) | The Civic Contract: a first step to a distributive economy |
| Erreygers, Guido (B), with John Cunliffe | Basic Endowments and Basic Income: Some Belgian Precursors |
| Ferge, Zsuzsa (H) | Basic Income for the Poorer Part of Europe? |
| Fitzpatrick, Tony (UK) | Into an Era of Post-Social Security: Globalisation and State Pluralism |
| Gamel, Claude (FR) | The use of employment rents for the financing of basic income |
| Gortemaker, Philip (NL) | Basic income, a matter of the heart |
| Healy, Sean (IRE), with Brigid Reynolds | From Concept to Green Paper: Putting Basic Income on the Political Agenda (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) |
| Hemerijck, Anton (NL) | Prospects for Effective Social Citizenship in an Age of Structural Inactivity (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) |
| Howard, Michael (US) | Basic Income and Cooperatives |
| Hughes, Gordon (UK), with Adrian Little | New Labour, Communitarianism and the Public Sphere in the UK |
| Jerusalem, Erwin (AU) | Basic Income: How it was introduced to the political agenda in Austria |
| Kavanagh, Catherine (IRE), with Charles Clark | Answering the Economic Questions and Objections to a Basic Income |
| Lehmann, Mary (US) | Opposing Globalization Could Justify Resource-Based Basic Income |
| Lerner, Sally (CA) | Fear of freedom: a barrier to putting BI on the political agenda |
| Little, Adrian (UK), with Hughes Gordon | New Labour, Communitarianism and the Public Sphere in the UK |
| Loftager, Jørn (DK) | Solidarity and Universality in the Danish Welfare State |
| Lunde, Thomas (CA) | The Family Basic Income Proposal |
| Manning, Lowell (NZ) | The Economic Effects of Introducing a Full Universal Basic Income into the New Zealand Economy |
| Metz, Paul (NL) | The daughter of Karl Marx en Adam Smith |
| Mitschke, Joachim (D) | Pleading for a Negative Income Tax (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) |
| Morier-Genoud, Jean (SWI) | Toward a renovation of economic circulation and institutionsMorley-Fletcher, Edwin (IT) Opening AddressOzanira da Silva e Silva, Maria (BRA) The Minimum Income as a Policy for Increasing Child Education in BrazilPelzer, Helmut (GE) Funding of an Unconditional Basic Income in Germany via a Modified Tax/Transfer SystemPioch, Roswitha (GE) The bottom line of the welfare state in Germany and the NetherlandsQuilley, Steven (UK) Sustainable Funding of Basic Income: Environment, Citizenship & Community, and a Trajectory for Basic Income Politics in Europe (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) |
| Reynolds, Brigid (IRE), with Sean Healy | From Concept to Green Paper: Putting Basic Income on the Political Agenda (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) |
| Robeyns, Ingrid (B) | An emancipation fee or hush money? The advantages and disadvantages of a basic income for women’s emancipation and well-being (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) |
| Roos, Nikolas (NL) | Basic Income and the justice of taxationSalinas, Claudio Caesar (ARG), with Philippe Van Parijs Basic income and its cognates. Puzzling equivalence and unheeded differences between alternative ways of addressing the new social question (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) Scharpf, Fritz (D) Basic Income and Social Europe (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) |
| Schutz, Robert (US) | More Basic IncomeSerati, M. (IT), with E. Chiappero & F. Silva Basic income: an insidious trap or a fruitful chance for the Italian labour market?Silva, F. (IT) ), with E. Chiappero & M. Serati Basic income: an insidious trap or a fruitful chance for the Italian labour market?Smith, Jeffery (US) From Potlatch to EarthshareStanding, Guy (SWI) Seeking Equality of Security in the Era of GlobalisationTerraz, Isabelle Redistributive Impact of a Basic Income: A Focus on Women’s SituationVan Parijs, Philippe (B), with Claudio Caesar Salinas Basic income and its cognates. Puzzling equivalence and unheeded differences between alternative ways of addressing the new social question (published in Basic Income on the Agenda) Widerquist, Karl (US) Reciprocity and the guaranteed income |