Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Corrado Del Bò and Emanuele Murra, Per un Reddito di Cittadinanza: Perché dare soldi a Homer Simpson e ad altri fannulloni [For Citizens Basic Income: Why give money to Homer Simpson and other slackers]
Citizen’s income is one of the main topics of political moment today. Many people think that the state should take responsibility for the poor and unemployed, and that citizen’s income can be the right tool for this purpose. But the citizen's income, properly...
Peter Cooper, “Technology Paves the Way for Basic Income More than a Job Guarantee”
Peter Cooper, “Technology Paves the Way for Basic Income More than a Job Guarantee”, heteconomist, 2014 September 26
Richard Pereira, “Universal Basic Income and the Cost Objection: What are We Waiting For?”
Richard Pereira, “Universal Basic Income and the Cost Objection: What are We Waiting For?”, World Economic Review, 5th August 2014
Oliver Tonkin, "US should enact minimum income"
Oliver Tonkin, “US should enact minimum income”, Daily Nebraskan, 2014 September 26
Brian Wang, “Politically enable the birth of a cash cow to fund Universal Basic Income”
Brian Wang, “Politically enable the birth of a cash cow to fund Universal Basic Income”, Next Big Future, 8th October 2014
Kristina Salas, “Mothers and a Living Income – Giving as We have Received”
The author discusses the difficulties of mothers, especially single mothers, in being able to care for their families, and proposes a Living Income. The Living Income Guaranteed would be a partial Basic Income in that it is means-tested and is intended to be provided...
David Jenkins, “A Perspective on Inflation”
In this article, David Jenkins assesses the possible impacts of a basic income upon inflation. He concludes that ‘[t]here is reason to believe then that UBI will not produce the kinds of inflationary effects for which it stands accused.’ The full article is available...
Scott Santens, "Breaking Down Without a Spare – America’s lopsided welfare system of counterproductive public assistance"
In this article, Scott Santens describes our current welfare system across the entire socioeconomic spectrum, and stresses the need for an improved safety net that exists as a basic income floor everyone can count on and no one can fall beneath. Scott Santens,...
Edurne Speirs, “A Universal Basic Income: the real alternative for the technological age”
Edurne Speirs, “A Universal Basic Income: the real alternative for the technological age”, The News Hub, 2014 September 24
James Knox-Davies, “The Basic Income ‘n’ Switch”
James Knox-Davies, “The Basic Income ‘n’ Switch”, Mr JKD, 9th September 2014
Beliefs about Poverty
The author contrasts the thoroughness of the statistical knowledge of poverty with the inadequacy of the current attempted solutions, and proposes the “Living Income Guaranteed” as the optimal solution. Living Income Now, “Beliefs about Poverty”, Living Income Now,...
Don Pittis, “Free money for all could jumpstart the economy”
Don Pittis, “Free money for all could the economy”, CBC News, 24th September 2014
