Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Chris Farrell, It's Time for a Negative Income Tax
Discussion of BIG has reached Bloomberg Businessweek. This opinion piece by Chris Farrell argues for BIG in the form of a Negative Income Tax. Farrell is contributing economics editor for Bloomberg Businessweek. By Chris Farrell, “It's Time for a Negative Income Tax,”...
Guinevere Liberty Nell, "Basic Income and the Free Market: Austrian Economics and the Potential for Efficient Redistribution"
The book, Basic Income and the Free Market, outlines Austrian arguments for and against the BIG.
Karl Widerquist, Jose Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (editors), "Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research"
Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research presents a compilation of six decades of Basic Income literature. It includes the most influential …
Tobias Bucknell, “Basic Income Plan: a thought experiment”
This article asks readers to imagine creating a fund to accumulate compound interest to create a back income in the future. Tobias Bucknell, “Basic Income Plan: a thought experiment,” TobiasBucknell.com, August 5, 2013
Chris Ladd, “How to End the Welfare State”
From the perspective of a committed member of the U.S. Republican Party,in this article Chris Ladd argues that a basic income has something for Republicans and Democrats. Chris Ladd asks, “How would Republicans react to a proposal that would eliminate the food stamp...
Allan Sheahen, “Basic Income Guarantee: Why now is the right time”
In this article, Allan Sheahen discusses the growing problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality in the United States, and argues that BIG can provide the solution. Allan Sheahen is a board member of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network and the author of the Basic...
Henrik Roseno, “Unconditional Basic Income and Joint Division of Labor is a natural evolution of democratic societies”
This opinion piece discusses how to get people to sign the EU petition for basic income. Henrik Roseno, “Unconditional Basic Income and Joint Division of Labor is a natural evolution of democratic societies,” Transformation.dk, September the 3rd, 2013
SEWA, “Unconditional cash transfers: SEWA pilots a unique experiment in Madhya Pradesh”
The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) recently completed a large pilot project on Basic Income in India. The association’s June Newsletter reports on the methodology and findings of the study. The project randomly assigned 8 out of 20 villages in the study to...
Victoria White, “We need to stop tax system incentivising dual-income families”
This article Irish Examiner argues in favour of basic income. Summary: Paid work is a scarce resource. Basic income is one way to support people to share the paid work available and still have a decent income. It's also a way to show we value all the unpaid work that...
Lui, Smyth, “Three trends that will create a demand for basic income”
Irish blogger Lui Smyth identifies three tendencies in our contemporary situation which makes a basic income a lively (and necessary) possibility: The decline of the middle class, the end of full employment and the rise of a non-market economy. Originally published on...
Stanislas Jourdan, “A Way to Get Healthy: Basic Income Experiments in Canada”
From 1974 to 1979, a basic income social experiment known under the name of “Mincome Program” took place in a small Canadian town. Evelyn Forget, researcher, is one of the very few persons who have studied the sociological impact of the guaranteed income experiment....
Baukje Hilarides, “Is het onvoorwaardelijk basisinkomen haalbaar in Nederland? [Is introduction of the UBI in the Netherlands feasible?]”
[Robin Ketelaars - Vereniging Basisinkomen] In a thesis of the study in Dutch Law at the Open University of the Netherlands 2012, (now Mr.) Baukje Hilarides investigated the possibilities and bottlenecks in the implementation of the Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)...
