Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
jpm, “Un Impôt Négatif sur La Fortune pour une Allocation Logement Universelle [A Negative Wealth Tax for a Universal Housing Benefit]”
[Liam Upton] Language: French jpm, “Un Impôt Négatif sur La Fortune pour une Allocation Logement Universelle [A Negative Wealth Tax for a Universal Housing Benefit]”, AgoraVox, November 4 2014
Jean-Eric Hyafil, “Le revenu universel, rémunération du bien commun [Universal Income, payment for the common good],”
[Liam Upton] Language: French Jean-Eric Hyafil, “Le revenu universel, rémunération du bien commun [Universal Income, payment for the common good],”, Le Monde, November 7 2014
Whet Moser, “Want to Help Gary, Indiana? Why Not Just Give Them Money?”
[Liam Upton] Whet Moser, “Want to Help Gary, Indiana? Why Not Just Give Them Money?” ChicagoMag, October 22, 2014
Christopher Balfour, Learning from Difference.
This book is a personal and family memoir, of Christopher Balfour—youth employment officer, independent councilor, writer, mechanic, octogenarian, and long-term basic income advocate. The book discusses British industrial self destruction and contains a plea for less...
Daniel Ayllón, “Un 15% de hogares no se puede permitir el lujo de encender la luz o la calefacción [15% of homes can't permit themselves the luxury of heat and lighting]”
[Liam Upton] The author interviews the European Parliament spokesperson for Equo, the Spanish affiliate of the Green Party and supporters of Basic Income. One of the questions is whether he prefers Basic Income or a Job Guarantee. Language: Spanish Daniel Ayllón, “Un...
Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Soumya Kapoor Mehta, and Guy Standing. Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India.
PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided...
Ed Dolan. “Universal Basic Income vs. Unemployment Insurance: Which is the Better Safety Net?”
A universal basic income (UBI) and unemployment insurance (UI) are two possible forms of social insurance for an economy in which job loss is a significant risk. Alice Fabre, Stéphane Pallage, and Christian Zimmermann (FPZ) address in a recent working paper from the...
Scott Santens, “Wouldn’t Unconditional Basic Income Just Cause Massive Inflation?”
[Liam Upton] Scott Santens, “Wouldn’t Unconditional Basic Income Just Cause Massive Inflation?”, Medium, November 22 2014
Stephane Pallage, Christian Zimmermann, “Universal Basic Income versus Unemployment Insurance”
ABSTRACT: In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with an universal basic income (UBI) system in an economy with idiosyncratic shocks to employment. Both policies provide a safety net in the face of idiosyncratic shocks. While the...
Tike van der Eijk and Paula Teutscher, "Het is tijd voor een basisinkomen voor iedereen [It's time for a Basic Income for everyone]"
Dutch minister Asscher has shown concerns about further automatization and the necessity to apply new instruments to social policy. A possibility is presented through the unconditional basic income, applied to Dutch society, discussing advantages and its financing....
Utopie trifft Politik [Utopia meets Politics]
In Germany, the unconditional basic income (UBI) idea has been around for years, through political activists. However, its application seems utopian, thundered from critics all around the political spectrum. The author enumerates arguments against the UBI, while...
The BIG Political Party, “If paying everyone an unconditional basic income doesn’t work, neither does ‘working hard and getting on’, for exactly the same reason.”
The BIG Political Party, “If paying everyone an unconditional basic income doesn’t work, neither does ‘working hard and getting on’, for exactly the same reason.”, 2014 November 21
