Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Dylan Matthews, “To Fix the Economy, Let’s Print Money and Mail it to Everyone”
Dylan Matthews, “To Fix the Economy, Let’s Print Money and Mail it to Everyone.” Vox. September 9, 2014.
Matt Bruenig, “The Universal Basic Income As Social Insurance's Insurance”
Matt Bruenig, “The Universal Basic Income As Social Insurance's Insurance.” Policyshop. September 27, 2014.
Gaura Rader, “Guinea Pigs, Basic Income, and Something for Nothing”
Gaura Rader, “Guinea Pigs, Basic Income, and Something for Nothing.” The Socratic Diablogs. September 23, 2014.
Cristina Brooks, “UK social services are removing senior washing, ADASS warns”
Cristina Brooks, “UK social services are removing senior washing, ADASS warns”, Basic Income UK, 14 September 2014.
Jessica Flanigan, “Political Authority and the Basic Income”
Flanigan advocates a basic income because it “balances the reasonable complaints that people may have about the effects of a property system that they never consented to join. Though redistribution cannot justify forcing everyone to join a property system, it can at...
Viktor Persson, “The Theory of Economy”
Viktor Persson, “The Theory of Economy”, A Functional Economy, 10 September 2014.
Scott Santens, “Machine Labor Day”
[Josh Martin] This piece gives thorough insight into the issue of automation and robotics replacing human labor and thus leading to an influx of unemployed low-skill workers. Santens describes why a higher minimum wage would fail to properly address the problem and...
Ryan Cooper, “America is running out of jobs. It's time for a universal basic income.”
[Josh Martin] In this post on The Week, Cooper discusses the political debate surrounding a universal basic income. While some policy circles advocate it, politicians are stuck debating the “something for nothing” objection to the basic income, instead preferring to...
Daniel Raventos and Julie Wark, “Disparaging the Poor: From Badmouthing and Sterilization to a Reclaimed Right of Existence.”
This article responds to those who disparage the poor and calls for a basic income. Ranventos and Wark write, “There is increasing awareness that the most basic human right, on which all the rest depend, is the right to exist and, for that to be possible, everybody...
Ellen Brown, “Council on Foreign Relations: Give money directly to the people.”
Ellen Brown, “Council on Foreign Relations: Give money directly to the people.” Scott.net: Signs of the Times, 01 Sep 2014. Published also in the Progress Report, Sept. 2, 2014.
Stan Jourdan, “L’inconditionnel – journal sur le revenu de base” [The Unconditional – Newspaper about Basic Income]
The article, located on a fundraising site, describes a new French news publication that is being launched to explore different aspects of basic income through articles, interviews, and reports of workshop proceedings. The release date is set to coincide with the 7th...
David Orrell, “We gave the banks money, so why can’t we give it to the people?”
David Orrell, “We gave the banks money, so why can’t we give it to the people?” World Finance: The Voice of the Market, September 1, 2014.
