Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Raphael Gray, "Learning to Live With Machines"
[Craig Axford] SUMMARY: With technology increasingly taking the place of unskilled workers in particular, this article argues a basic income guarantee offers a way to provide a universal safety net that will enable us to adjust to the changing relationship between...
Gilroy Bernard Michael, Heimann Anastasia, & Schopf Mark, “Basic Income and Labor Supply: The German Case”
ABSTRACT: This paper deals with the effects of implementing a basic income on the labor supply side. The German welfare as well as tax and social contributions system are investigated. The results clarify that the abolishment of the so-called unemployment trap due to...
Philip Khaled Brenan, "Switzerland, the Basic Income, and Technological Unemployment"
[Craig Axford] SUMMARY: In this short post the author cites the prospect of long-term technologically driven unemployment as a fundamental reason behind his endorsement of Switzerland's basic income guarantee proposal. Philip Khaled Brenan, "Switzerland, the Basic...
Dr. Gill Caradoc-Davies, "Urgent need to alter NZ's wealth"
[Craig Axford] SUMMARY: Retired psychiatrist Dr. Gill Caradoc-Davies argues the term "child poverty" is misplaced. Children are by their nature "embedded" in their families, and to address child poverty it will be necessary for countries like New Zealand to address...
Barb Jacobson and Francine Mestrum, “Should there be a basic income?”
SUMMARY: Every month the New Internationalist invites two experts to debate, and then invite readers to join the conversation online. This April Barb Jacobson and author and Francine Mestrum debate basic income. YES: Barb Jacobson is co-ordinator of Basic Income UK. A...
Jacques Berthillier, “Comment l’Iran a instauré un revenu de base sans le vouloir [How Iran has established a basic income without meaning to]”
[Mathieu Ferry] Language: French Jacques Berthillier, “Comment l’Iran a instauré un revenu de base sans le vouloir [How Iran has established a basic income without meaning to]”, Revenu de base, December 10, 2013.
Mark Reynolds, “Op-ed: Time to tax carbon and give taxpayers the money.”
[Jason Burke Murphy] SUMMARY: The executive director of the Citizen's Climate Lobby, Mark Reynolds, has written an article for the Salt Lake Tribune calling for a carbon cap, fees, and a Basic Income Guarantee. "Cap and Dividend" would require permits be auctioned in...
Jax Blunt, “The one on inequality, basic income and anger.”
SUMMARY: This blog reacts to the large and growing wealth inequality in Britain, now at the point at which the wealthiest five families control the same amount of wealth as 12.6 million people put together. The author expresses dismay that the country could let this...
Tom Streithorst, “The Road to Recovery: On the state of the economy and how to fix it.”
According to this article, “The only reason standards of living are not improving is that productivity gains go almost exclusively to the top one percent. The only reason the economy is stagnant is because the average American doesn’t have enough money in his or her...
Ailsa MacKay, “Viewpoint: A Citizens Basic Income? Questions For A New Scotland”
Ailsa MacKay, “Viewpoint: A Citizens Basic Income? Questions For A New Scotland”, Discover Society, 1st April 2014.
Henry Hazlitt, “Incentives, Income, and Welfare.”
SUMMARY: This article argues that basic income is bad for the poor and for the economy in general. The author writes, “I have already pointed out how the guaranteed income plan, if adopted in the form that its advocates propose, would lead to wholesale idleness and...
Bob Adelmann, "President Proposes Doubling Tax Subsidy for the Poor"
[Craig Axford] SUMMARY: In this blog post, author Bob Adelmann offers a critique of President Obama's proposal to double the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program. The EITC was modeled after economist Milton Friedman's "negative income tax" idea. Currently the...
