Universal Basic Income: Does It Work (original) (raw)

An Argument for the Universal Basic Income

With growing income inequality and struggles to end poverty in the developed world, governments will need to consider new strategies to support their people. The idea of the universal basic income involves providing a minimum income to all citizens of the state, regardless of employment. This solution has had advocates stretching back hundreds of years and may be the solution to growing inequality, the rise of underemployment, and unemployment due to technological advance. This essay develops the history of the basic income, current economic problems, an explanation of a basic income explanation, and experimental evidence dispelling myths about such a system.

Combining a Minimum Income with Active Social Policies: Barcelona’s B-MINCOME Pilot

European Green Perspectives on Basic Income 57, 2019

Poverty has become the new urban issue. To face this, municipalities like Barcelona find themselves conditioned by their states’ structural economic, legal, and political obstacles. Furthermore, traditional conditional social policies seem to be losing much of their former redistributive capacity. This creates new necessities to respond to the new forms of urban poverty that national or regional social policies seem incapable of solving. By tackling these structural obstacles and given the continuing lack of a full basic income at the national or regional level, the B-MINCOME project combines a minimum income scheme with active social policies to provide some evidence in order to design innovative and more efficient policies to fight poverty and exclusion in the most deprived urban areas.

Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research

2013

Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research presents a compilation of six decades of basic income literature. It includes the most influential empirical research and theoretical arguments on all aspects of the Basic Income proposal. * Includes six decades of the most influential literature on Basic Income * Includes unpublished and hard-to-find articles * The first major compendium on one of the most innovative political reform proposals of our age * Explores multidisciplinary views of Basic Income, with philosophical, economic, political, and sociological views * Features contributions from key and well-known philosophers and economists, including Atkinson, Simon, Friedman, Fromm, Gorz, Offe, Rawls, Pettit, Van Parijs, and more * Presents the best theoretical and empirical arguments for and against Basic Income