Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Red Pepper, "David Harvey interview: The Importance of Post-Capitalist Imagination"
[Jason Burke Murphy - USBIG] David Harvey, a Marxist professor of Geography at City University of New York, gives a list of important "post-capitalist" measures. A Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) will be needed if money is reformed to prevent the centralization of power....
Guy Standing, “Pleasure Before Business”
Jason Burke Murphy - USBIG - August 2013 In The European, Basic Income Earth Network co-founder Guy Standing argues that globalization and technological developments pose an opportunity if the precariat, and those who may join it, work together for economic security,...
Baron, Alexander. “Op-Ed: Basic Income for Europe in 2014?”
Aynur Bashirova – BI News – 2013. Alexander Baron, in an article published in the Digital Journal, argues that today’s governments’ wage policies are not functional, will not get countries out of the economic crisis, and do not benefit people. People working in...
Jacob Goldstein, “Is It Nuts to Give to the Poor Without Strings Attached?”
Discussion of BIG has gained strength in the United States recent with editorials in Slate, Bloomberg Businessweek, and it even got a mention from Paul Krugman. Although not by name, the discussion of BIG has now reached the New York Times Magazine. A column by Jacob...
Mayyasi, Alex, “The Basic Income Guarantee
This blog uses Harper Lee’s experience writing To Kill a Mockingbird as an example to support the basic income guarantee. Alex Mayyasi writes, “In the 1950s, Nelle Harper Lee was a single woman living in New York City. … [S]he worked as an airline clerk and wrote in...
Martin, Melissa, International Perspectives on Guaranteed Annual Income Programs
ABSRACT: Addressing the issue of poverty in Canada is an important challenge to policymakers. Establishing an income floor below which no citizen falls is a critical public policy goal for the Canadian welfare state. In responding to this policy issue, recent debate...
Walker, Jesse, Two articles on libertarian populism include a discussion of basic income
Libertarianism, in the United States, is a political ideology dedicated to the smallest possible government. Yet, there is a long history of at least some libertarians favoring basic income. In two articles in the libertarian magazine, Reason, Jesse Walker discusses...
Harford, Tim, "The Undercover Economist: How to give money away"
A commentator for the Financial Times, Britain’s leading business newspaper, has tentatively endorsed BIG. Tim Harford writes, “Helping the poor in the most obvious way of all is starting to look attractive.” Harford, Tim, " The Undercover Economist: How to give money...
Simulacrum, “Three trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income”
In a post at the blog Simulacrum, "Liu" discusses three trends that will create a demand for an unconditional basic income: The fall of the middle class, the long term decline in demand for human labor, and the detachment of cultural production from the market....
Torry, Malcolm “There are many convincing arguments in favour of a Citizen’s Income”
In this blog, Malcolm Torry discusses a new book, Money for Everyone: Why we need a Citizen’s Income, which argues for a Universal Basic Income, or as it is termed here, a Citizen’s Income. He discusses the different approaches the book uses in arguing for the policy,...
Perkio, Johanna, “Basic Income Proposals in Finland, Germany and Spain”
This paper compares BI models and discussion in Finland, Germany and Spain. Perkio, Johanna, “Basic Income Proposals in Finland, Germany and Spain,” Discussion Paper No. 2, Transform! European network for alternative thinking and political dialogue, 2013, online at:...
L’Hirondelle, C.A., Frederik Schenk, and Eric Manneschmidt, “Why Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend is a bad idea”
Written as response to the article, “Six Lessons from the Alaska Model,” by Karl Widerquist, C.A. L’Hirondelle, Frederik Schenk, and Eric Manneschmidt argue that resource dividends are not a good source of funding for a basic income because, “The Alaska Permanent Fund...
