Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Julio Aguirre, “Más allá del asistencialismo: El ingresso ciudadano universal y las condiciones materiales para la libertad” [“Beyond welfarism: Basic Income and the material conditions for freedom”]
Julio Aguirre discusses the basic premises for conditional grants to alleviate poverty (conventional welfarism), very popular in Spain in the past few years, which contrasts with the more progressive and integrating basic income. According to Julio, basic...
Daniel Raventós, The material conditions of freedom
The material conditions of freedom is an updated version of an earlier book (published in 1999) called El derecho a la existencia (The right to existence). This is a comprehensive volume about Basic Income (BI), dealing in a detailed fashion its definition(s), related...
Jordi Arcarons, Daniel Raventós, Lluís Torrens, “El “trabajo garantizado” de Izquierda Unida y el “plan de garantía de rendas” de Podemos contra la pobreza: unas propuestas muy pobres” [“”Guaranteed jobs” from Izquierda Unida and “Plan of income guarantee” from Podemos, against poverty: two very weak proposals”]
Daniel Raventós, Jordi Arcarons and Lluís Torrens make the case for basic income, which they justify as more rational, more efficient and socially desirable than guaranteed jobs (from Izquerda Unida) and the plan of income guarantee (from Podemos). This is put forward...
Michael Story, ‘Free market welfare: The case for a Negative Income Tax’
Adam Smith institute's new report argues that we should reform tax credit with a Negative Income Tax. The press release from the institute can be read here. The report is written by Michael Story. Michael Story, 'Free market welfare: The case for a Negative Income...
Richard Murphy and Howard Reed, ‘Financing the Social State: Towards a full employment economy’
Richard Murphy and Howard Reed, 'Financing the Social State: Towards a full employment economy' (pdf), the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, 2013. Murphy and Reed recommend the implementation of an unconditional basic income in the U.K., in this policy...
Caitlin McLean, ‘Beyond Care: Expanding the Feminist Debate on Universal Basic Income’
In this paper, Dr Caitlin McLean demonstrates 'how a multi-dimensional perspective on gender equality strengthens the feminist case for BI proposals'. The paper is the first of WiSE working paper series. The WiSE (Women in Scotland's Economy) research centre was...
ALASKA: Study Links Permanent Fund Dividend with Increased Birth Weight
New research from economists at Hallym University in Chuncheon and Korea University in Seoul found that Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend has helped increase birth weights for Alaska newborns. According to the study, from 1978 to 1984, the dividend cash transfer...
David Casassas and Jurgen De Wispelaere “Republicanism and the political economy of democracy.”
Abstract: Europe is experiencing rapidly accelerating poverty and social exclusion, following half a decade of financial crisis and austerity politics. The key problem behind Europe's malaise, in our view, is the economic disenfranchisement of large parts of its...
Herbert Jauch, “The Rise and Fall of the Basic Income Grant Campaign: Lessons from Namibia”
ABSTRACT: Namibia is still characterised by deep socio-economic inequalities, as economic structures have remained largely intact after independence. Poverty is still widespread and unemployment has remained high with women and youth being particularly...
CANADA: Saskatchewan Poverty reduction strategy one step closer
The Advisory Group on Poverty Reduction (AGRP) has presented its final recommendations to Saskatchewan social services minister Donna Harpauer. Areas of initial focus include income security to support basic needs for all, regardless of circumstance or geography. This...
Stewart Lansley, “How Social Wealth Funds Could Help Tackle Inequality.”
ABSTRACT: This article examines the potential to tackle the roots of inequality by the introduction of one or more social wealth funds. Such funds would aim to capture some of the financial gains from the private ownership of capital—a principal driver of...
Thomas Piketty further discusses his book “Capital in the twenty-first century” and extends relations to basic income
After the resounding commercial and critical success of Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in the twenty-first century", the author himself responded, in the form of an article in the latest release of Basic Income Studies, to critics and to proponents of Basic Income...
