Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Matthew Johnson (editor), “Special Issue: The Precariat.”
SUMMARY: Guy Standing’s book, The Precariat: A New and Dangerous Class, addresses labor market insecurity and argues for basic income as a solution. The journal, Global Discourse, devotes an entire issue to the Precariat. According Matthew Johnson, who was the guest...
Tyler Morning Telegraph’s Editorial Board, “A job is superior to guaranteed income.”
Tyler Morning Telegraph’s Editorial Board, “A job is superior to guaranteed income.” Tyler Morning Telegraph [Tyler, Texas], Sunday, 8 June 2014.
Richa, "A Basic Income Guarantee as Reparations for Group Injustice"
This paper looks at the issue of reparations for group injustice, mainly in the USA, and suggests a basic income guarantee as a possible means of addressing that issue. The need for and legitimacy of such reparations are first established. The author details some...
Federico Pistono, Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and Be Happy.
PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: You are about to become obsolete. You think you are special, unique, and that whatever it is that you are doing is impossible to replace. You are wrong. As we speak, millions of algorithms created by computer scientists are frantically running on...
John Aziz, “Prepare yourselves for the robot economy revolution.”
SUMMARY: According to this article, “We are at the beginning of a tidal wave of new economic innovation and growth that will change the way we think about the economy forever.” The author concludes, “But on a rising tide of growth, it will be possible to redistribute...
Clive Menzies, “Viewpoints: What should capitalism do?”
SUMMARY: The BBC asked four writer to discuss what we should do to renew the capitalist system. One of them, Clive Menzies, argued that the system has become unequal because of priviledged ownership of natural resources, which should be reversed by a Citizens Dividend...
Kyle McCarthy, "The 'Basic Income' Trap"
[Josh Martin] In this post McCarthy analyzes the choice of the After Party to support a basic income, claiming that the basic income movement is, "at best a waste of time, and at worst a trap that will feed our rights to Wall Street." He attacks Charles Murray's...
Sandra Kilhof, “Why unconditional basic income is no more than a socialist fairytale.”
SUMMARY: The author argues, unconditional basic income is being heralded as the solution to all of Europe’s financial problems, but the salary for everyone is not all it’s cracked up to be, because UBI fails most financial feasibility tests. She concludes, “An...
Jeremiah Luttrell, “Basic Income in America: Welfare Aid in Direct Cash.”
Jeremiah Luttrell writes the Common Progress blog which is dedicated “to politically balance progressivism with right-libertarianism in the United States.” In this article, he endorses the name “basic income” but not the policy, opting instead for a work-conditional...
Jehu, “How the basic income scheme could become the Left’s worst nightmare”
[Josh Martin] In this post Jehu discusses the basic income’s effect on real and nominal wages as a product of the combination of Keynesian system and the Speenhamland System. Jehu then argues that this basic income could be funded by a consumption tax. Jehu, “How the...
Reihan Salam, “Unconditional basic income? You're kidding: Slate opinion”
SUMMARY: The author argues, “I think that no-strings-attached money is a dangerously bad idea and that it would do far more to undermine poverty-fighting efforts than it would to strengthen them. I also think that meddlesome caseworkers are the unsung heroes of the...
Scott Santens, "Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income? – An answer to a growing question of the 21st century"
SUMMARY: This article argues, “Capitalism can be improved, and basic income is how it can be accomplished.” Scott Santens, “Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income? - An answer to a growing question of the 21st century”, Medium, 2nd June...
