Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Glaeser, Edward: “Cash Is Better Than Food Stamps in Helping Poor”
In an opinion piece on Bloomberg.org, prominent Harvard economist Edward Glaeser writes, “Redistribution has costs… but it also has benefits, particularly by creating a society with less painful poverty… I won’t try to convince you that the U.S. should do more or less for its poorer citizens.
Storlund, Vivan “Basic Income: How it fits in the Policy Framework for Green Jobs”
The basic argument in this paper is based on the premise that when green is the qualifying criterion for work rather than profit or economic growth, the world of work and the economic scenario in which it has to operate assume a different dimension.
Hyslop, Katie: “What About Just Guaranteeing Everyone a Basic Income?”
This opinion piece argues that a BIG could almost erase poverty in Canada. It presents evidence from the Negative Income Tax experiments and from the history of the guaranteed income movement.
Hansen, James: “Game Over for the Climate”
This opinion piece endorses the Tax-and-Dividend approach to global warming without using that name for it.
Glaeser, Edward (2012) “Cash Is Better Than Food Stamps in Helping Poor”
In an opinion piece on Bloomberg.org, prominent Harvard economist Edward Glaeser writes, “Redistribution has costs… but it also has benefits, particularly by creating a society with less painful poverty…
Graham, Larry (2012) “We should get a direct dividend from boom”
Larry Graham, a form member of the Western Australian State Parliament, states in this opinion piece that the burning political question facing Western Australia right now is how to share the benefits of the coming resource boom. He argues that Western Australia could do no better than to imitate Alaska by creating a sovereign wealth fund to finance a yearly dividend for everyone in the state.
Coren, Michael (2012) “Should Companies Pay To Use Our Common Resources?”
This opinion piece argues for a resource dividend on the grounds that even the poorest among us own a share of the Earth’s resources, which are commonly claimed as private wealth. The article cites Peter Barnes’s work on this issue.
Ryan, Anne B. “Column: Our Welfare System is Broken. We can Fix it… By Paying Everybody”
In her this column, Anne B. Ryan, of BIEN Ireland, argues that the current welfare system is not applicable anymore and it needs to be replaced by new system, Universal Basic Income (UBI). UBI is a regular and unconditional income whether one is employed or not. The...
Lyssandra Sears (2012) “Give everyone a state income: proposal,” The Local: Switzerland’s news in English, 12 April 2012 09:57
This newspaper article reports on the Swiss effort to raise enough signatures to trigger a referendum on basic income. The effort is supported by high-level politicians as well as by BIEN-Switzerland. The movement needs 100,000 signatures to put the referendum on the ballot.
SWIFT, Richard (2012), 'Preparing the ground: Left strategy beyond the apocalypse'
In this essay, Richard Swift - a former co-editor of The New Internationalist - answers the question, “In some Western countries, right-wing populism has been able to channel much of the anger caused by the financial crisis and its effect. Why has the Left been...
MOULIER-BOUTANG, Yann (2012), Cognitive capitalism…
In Chapter 7 of his book Cognitive Capitalism (translation of Le Capitalisme cognitif, Paris: Editions Amsterdam, 2007), French economist Yann Moulier-Boutang argues for an unconditionally guaranteed social income as a central component of a "real revolutionary...
Raventos & Wark (2012), 'Beyond Indignation'
Like their previous paper on basic income (see https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/14/taking-it-to-the-streets-in-spain/), this essay by Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark is published by the influentiel left-wing political newsletter Counterpunch (USA). They wrote it at...
