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Robert Frank, “Let’s Try a Basic Income and Public Work”
[Josh Martin] Frank voices a few objections to Zwolinski’s original post on the basic income at Cato Unbound. Frank agrees that a basic income would be preferable to the current system, but he fears that a basic income that raises a family out of poverty would never...
Mickael B. Hoelman and Sugeng Bahagijo, "Arguing for Indoenesian basic income"
[Craig Axford] Indonesia's aged and disabled populations are among its most vulnerable. A basic income guarantee covering the roughly 15% of Indonesia's population that fall within these categories would significantly reduce inequality and improve quality of life....
Jim Manzi, “When the Basic Income Guarantee Meets the Political Process”
[Josh Martin] Manzi responds to Zwolinski’s original post at Cato Unbound by attacking the basic income guarantee (BIG) using the randomized experiments from 1968 to 1980 as evidence that a BIG would reduce work hours. Manzi goes on to claim that the best way out of...
Paul Hiebert, "Universal Basic Income: Something We Can All Agree On?"
[Craig Axford] “The left can agree because basic income provides economic security for all Americans. The right can get behind it because it’s a form of economic security that doesn’t interfere with market forces as much as other forms of social security, such as...
Paul Krugman, “Libertarian Fantasies.”
In this article, Noble-prize-winning economist Paul Krugman criticizes a plan for a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) put forward by libertarians. He does not say outright whether he believes BIG is a good or bad idea in itself. He says instead that a libertarian plan to...
Jeremy Scheff, "Basic income vs. basic job"
[Craig Axford] The question of whether a person would be better off with a basic job or a basic income is explored in this post. Jeremy Scheff, "Basic income vs. basic job", dumbmatter.com, November 13, 2013
Dylan Matthews, "Giving everyone a basic income would work for the same reasons Social Security does"
[Craig Axford] This post argues the wonderful thing about Social Security is that it targets a specific problem, senior poverty, and it gives seniors cash directly to fight it. A basic income guarantee would, according to the author, function largely the same way....
Harry Shutt, “The Case for a Basic Income”
[Jenna van Draanen] Harry Shutt, “The Case for a Basic Income.” Blog at Wordpress.com Articles, March 2013.
Michael Huemer, “Is a Basic Income Permissible?”
[Josh Martin] Huemer provides the first response to Zwolinski’s lead essay in the Cato Unbound debate on the basic income. Coming from an anarchist-libertarian perspective, Huemer’s main arguments against a basic income are against governments in general. His line...
Jesse Walker, “Making the Welfare State Less Intrusive”
[Josh Martin] Walker’s post is in response to the Cato Unbound debate on the basic income which was kicked off by Zwolinski’s lead essay on the libertarian argument for the basic income. Walker adds to the discussion with two well-informed points. First, while...
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, “Libertarians Debate Basic Income Guarantee”
[Josh Martin] In this post Brown highlights the month-long debate that has just begun at Cato Unbound titled “The Basic Income and the Welfare State”. Brown then discusses the first article, which was written by Matt Zwolinski and looks forward to the upcoming...
Matt Zwolinski, “The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for a Basic Income Guarantee”
[Josh Martin] Zwolinski’s excellent article acts as the lead essay for a special month-long debate hosted by Cato Unbound on “The Basic Income and the Welfare State”. Written from the pragmatic libertarian perspective, Zwolinski outlines the current libertarian...
