Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
The Conversative, “Should the Conservative Party adopt a Negative Income Tax?”
[Josh Martin] The author of this post begins by highlighting the issues with the current benefits system in the UK: it is too confusing, too complex, and too inefficient. Further, the recent emphasis on employment as the best route out of poverty has proven false....
David Vognar, “The Case for a Guaranteed Minimum Income”
[Josh Martin] In this post, Vognar jumps into a discussion on government guarantees, claiming that a minimum income guarantee like a universal basic income would be less heavy-handed than a job guarantee or other types of guarantees. An income floor would provide...
James Hansen, “Too Little, Too Late? Oops?”
[Josh Martin] In this opinion piece, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences James Hansen of Columbia University discusses climate action in the United States. In his post he throws his support behind the Citizens Climate Lobby’s (CCL) recent proposal for a...
Stuart Weir, "Basic Income: transforming lives in rural India"
[Craig Axford] A basic income guarantee has had transformative effects on the lives of many in rural India, providing evidence of just how powerful an anti-poverty tool BIG can be. Stuart Weir, "Basic Income: transforming lives in rural India", Open India: India and...
Dylan Matthews, "Mexico tried giving poor people cash instead of food. It worked."
[Craig Axford] A study looking into Mexico's Programa de Apoyo Alimentario food aid program finds that giving those in need food is more costly and no more effective than simply giving people direct financial aid and allowing them to buy food on their own. In...
Albert Wenger, "A Basic Income Experiment I Would Like To See (Detroit)"
[Craig Axford] The author of this blog suggests the City of Detroit should select around 1,000 individuals living within the same area, offer them $400 a month without any strings attached, improve basic services such as internet access, and then see what happens to...
33rd Square, "Is This The End of Careers As We Know Them?"
[Craig Axford] According to this blog post more and more people are arguing that what really matters is a capacity for social innovation. Due to a combination of automation and wealth concentration, increasing calls for new approaches such as a basic income guarantee...
Gaura Rader, "The Democracy Argument for Basic Income"
[Craig Axford] Gaura Rader, "The Democracy Argument for Basic Income", The Socratic Diablogs, June 25, 2014. Gaura Rader, "Democracy and Basic Income Part II", The Socratic Diablogs, June 26, 2014
Jon Evans, "Welcome to Extremistan! Please Check Your Career At The Door."
[Craig Axford] Technology is increasingly replacing more jobs than it is creating. This trend favors extreme jobs that a few superstars get paid extremely well to do, leaving everyone else either unemployed or underemployed. Jon Evans concludes that a basic income...
Jessica Flanigan, "Is Living on the Dole Bad For You?"
[Craig Axford] Jessica Flanigan challenges some fundamental objections to a basic income guarantee found within Brink Lindsey's book Human Capitalism. Brink Lindsey responds in a second post that followed on June 27, 2014. Links to both the initial challenge and the...
Mathias Marchal, “Le revenu minimum garanti: «une idée soutenue à droite comme à gauche» [The guaranteed minimum income: ‘an idea sustained on left and right’]”
Mathias Marchal, “Le revenu minimum garanti: «une idée soutenue à droite comme à gauche» [The guaranteed minimum income: ‘an idea sustained on left and right’]” Métro, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 26 June 2014.
Benjamin Shingler, "Are Canadians worth $20K a year, guaranteed?"
[Craig Axford] The Basic Income Earth Network's 15th annual conference in Montreal raises the profile of the basic income guarantee in Canada. A CTV News report on discussions at the BIEN conference points out that press coverage for BIG has been steadily increasing...
