Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Is Basic Income Better than Research Grants?
Researchers Krist Vaesen from the Netherlands and Joel Katzav from Australia, have published a paper in Plos One where they analyze what would happen if research money was equally distributed among researchers without the need for grant applications. The paper...
Jay Hammond, “Diapering the Devil: How Alaska Helped Staunch Befouling by Mismanaged Oil Wealth”
Jay Hammond Jay Sterner Hammond (July 21, 1922 – August 2, 2005) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the fourth Governor of Alaska from 1974 to 1982. Hammond was born in Troy, New York and served as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in World...
United States: CQ releases basic income research compilation
Congressional Quarterly (CQ) has published a research paper on basic income (BI) that explains its universal popularity due to automation growth estimates worldwide. The CQ Researcher covers everything from Scott Santens’ crowdfunded self-financing mechanism to U.S....
Institute for Policy Research releases “Assessing the Case for a Universal Basic Income in the UK”
The 94-page policy brief surveys the rise in popularity of the idea of UBI, especially in the UK context, and examines its feasibility and possible implementation strategies.
FRANCE: “Monthly Dossiers” debuts with issue on UBI
The dossier features the work of Stéphan Lipiansky, Jean-Éric Hyafil, Denis Clerc, and François Meunier.
Matt Wilder, “Debating Basic Income: Distributive Justice and the Normative-Technical Nexus”
Wilder, a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto, won first place in the 2016 Progressive Economics Forum graduate student essay contest with the paper.
Polish journal Theoretical Practice devotes issue to basic income and job guarantee
The contents of the issue are freely available online, although only in Polish.
Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght, “Basic income and the freedom to lead a good life”
Van Parijs and Vanderborght contribute a chapter to The Good Life Beyond Growth: New Perspectives, a collection of essays in Routledge’s series Studies in Ecological Economics.
Teppo Eskelinen and Johanna Perkiö, “Micro-investment perspective and the potential of the universal basic income”
Eskelinen and Perkiö analyze basic income as a tool to promote micro-investments by poor individuals and households.
“Reducing poverty and inequality through tax-benefit reform and the minimum wage: the UK as a case-study”
The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex has released the paper as part of its EUROMOD working paper series.
Ville-Veikko Pulkka, “A free lunch with robots – can a basic income stabilise the digital economy?”
Pulkka is writing a doctoral dissertation on the implications of the digital economy for labor and public policy.
Basic Income: Tradeoffs and Bottom Lines
This paper represents a massive undertaking by both University of Melbourne Australia faculty and an independent agency called the the Brotherhood of St. Laurence dedicated to social Justice. It looks at a collection of BI pilot projects, as well as other projects...
