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Discussion Papers

The USBIG discussion paper series makes available papers in progress about or relating to the Basic Income Guarantee as a forum for discussion in advance of publication. If you would like to submit a paper for this series, send an electronic copy to Karl@Widerquist.com. See the instructions for authors.

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#	Date /reverse	Author	Title
1	May 2000	Harris, Robert	The Guaranteed Income Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
2	September 2000	Widerquist, Karl	Citizenship or Obligation
3	December 2000	Block, Fred	Basic Income and the Shadow of Speedhamland
4	March 2001	Clark, Charles M.A.	Changing Labour Markets: Towards Real Flexibility
5	May 2001	Lewis, Michael	A Critique of Phelps' Welfare Economic Justification of Wage Subsidies
6	November 2001	Wax, Amy	Something for Nothing: The Liberal Case Against Welfare Work Requirements
7	January 2002	Cunliffe, John and Guido Erreygers	Inheritance and Equal Shares: Early American Views
8	February 2002	Smith, Jeffery J	From Red to Green: From Income to Rents as the Funding Source for a Social Salary
9	February 2002	Howard, Michael W.	Liberal and Marxist Justifications for Basic Income
10	February 2002	Bergmann. Barbara R.	A Swedish-Style Welfare State Or Basic Income: Which Should Have Priority?
11	February 2002	Farris, Buford	Was it only a Dream: Guaranteed Income through the eyes of a Sixties Poverty Warrior in Texas
12	February 2002	Sheahen, Al	Does Everyone Have a Right to a Basic Income Guarantee?
13	February 2002	Sheahan, Al	Why not Guarantee Everyone a Job? Why the Negative Income Tax Experiments of the 1970s were Successful
14	February 2002	Garfinkel, Irwin, Chien-Chung Huang, Wendy Naidich,	Effects Of Tax Rebates on Poverty and Income Distribution
15	February 2002	Lewis, Michael	Perhaps There Can be Too Much Freedom
16	February 2002	Wolff, Ed	Recent Trends in Living Standards in the United States
17	February 2002	Morrison, Roy	A Framework for Justice and Fairness
18	February 2002	Bryan, James B.	Did the U.S. Welfare Reforms of 1996 and the Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit Eliminate the Need for a Basic Income Guarantee?
19	February 2002	Laurent, Thierry and Yannick L’Horty	Static vs. Dynamic Inactivity Trap on the Labor Market: Revisiting the “Making Work Pay” Issue.
20	February 2002	Bouquin, Stephen & Catherine Levy	Social minima a part of recommodification of labour? Critical assessment concerning the tendencies towards basic income
21	February 2002	Pressman, Steven	Guaranteed Incomes and the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff
22	February 2002	Zelleke, Almaz	Basic Income in the United States: Redefining Citizenship in the Liberal State
23	February 2002	Nattrass, Nicoli and Jeremy Seekings	The Political-Economy of a Basic Income Grant in South Africa
24	February 2002	Shafarman, Steven	Ending Hunger, Homelessness, and Debilitating Poverty: Comparing BIG and other approaches
25	March 2002	Waltman, Jerold	The Basic Income Guarantee and the Living Wage: A Comparative Anatomy
26	March 2002	Van Trier, Walter	Who Framed ‘Social Dividend’?
27	March 2002	Widerquist, Karl	Who Exploits Who?
28	March 2002	Shafarman, Steven	Beyond Left vs. Right: A New Political Discourse
29	March 2002	Clark, Charles M. A.	Basic Income: Promoting Social Justice in a 21st Century Economy
30	March 2002	Widerquist, Karl	Phelp’s Economic Discipline as Undisciplined Economics
31	March 2002	Caputo, Richard K.	FAP Flops: Lessons Learned from the Failure to Pass the Family Assistance Plan in 1970 and 1972?
32	March 2002	Clark, Stephen C.	Funding a Basic Income Guarantee Considering Size, Political Viability, and Pipeline
33	March 2002	Frankman, Myron	Funding a Planet-Wide Citizen's Income: Trial Calculations
34	April 2002	Suplicy, Eduardo	From a Minimum Income to a Basic Income in Brazil
35	May 2002	Shafarman, Steven	Welfare and the True Meaning of “Conservative”
36	May 2002	Widerquist, Karl	The Stakeholder Account System
37	July 2002	Handler, Joel	Social Citizenship and Workfare in the U.S. and Western Europe: From Status to Contract
38	September 2002	Widerquist, Karl	A Failure to Communicate: The Labor Market Findings of the Negative Income Tax Experiments and Their Effects on Policy and Public Opinion
39	November 2002	Cruz Basso, Leonardo Fernando	Meritorious currency: a currency against famine
40	November 2002	Hernández Losada, Diego Fernando	Universal basic income as a preferential social dividend
41	November 2002	Rey Pérez, José Luis	Can we argue for a human right to Basic Income?
42	November 2002	Shafarman, Steven	Mobilizing Support for Basic Income
43	November 2002	Thurlow, James	Can South Africa Afford to Become Africa's First Welfare State?
44	January 2003	Farris, Buford	A Real War on Poverty: Guaranteed Income Plus
45	January 2003	Smith, Jeffery	Not the Left, but a Critical Mass Will win, not BI, but Rent Dividends
46	January 2003	Neuberg, Leland G.	Beyond Basic Incomes and Stakes: Toward a More Egalitarian Society
47	January 2003	Fumagalli, Andrea	Bioeconomics, labor flexibility and cognitive work: the unequal exchange
48	January 2003	Funicello, Theresa	Getting on a path to just distribution: The Caregiver Credit Campaign
49	January 2003	Clark, Stephen	The Basic Income as a Foundation of a Sound Currency and a Free and Open Market
50	January 2003	Laurent, Thierry and Yannick L’Horty	Basic Income/Minimum Wage Schedule and the Occurrence of Inactivity Traps : Some Evidence on the French Labor Market
51	January 2003	Handler, Joel	Myth and Ceremony in Workfare: Rights, Contracts, and Client Satisfaction
52	January 2003	Murphy, Jason and John Buerck	Thinking Machines, Automated Administration, Employment and Citizen’s Participation
53	January 2003	Sheahen, Allan	Does Everyone Have the Right to a Basic Income Guarantee?
54	January 2003	Henriques, Manuel	The Guaranteed Minimum Income Schemes in the European Union, the Crisis in the European Social Policy Model and the Lessons from the USA
55	February 2003	Neuberg, Leland G.	What Defeated a Negative Income Tax?: Constructing a Causal Explanation of a Politically Controversial Historical Event
56	February 2003	Wax, Amy	The Political Psychology of Social Security: – Obstacles to Reform
57	February 2003	Harvey, Philip	The Right to Work and Basic Income Guarantees: A Comparative Assessment
58	February 2003	Opielka, Michael	Carework Salaries: The German Case and Beyond
59	February 2003	Zelleke, Almaz	Distributive Justice and the Argument for Basic Income
60	February 2003	Bryan, James B.	Targeted Programs v. The Basic Income Guarantee: An Examination of the Efficiency Costs of Funding Different Forms of Redistribution
61	February 2003	Harman, Eva	Social Grants and their Social Circulations
62	February 2003	Dahms, Harry F.	Breaking the Glass Cage: How Basic Income is a Quantitatively Different Social Policy Paradigm
63	April 2003	Suplicy, Eduardo Matarazzzo	President Lula's Zero Hunger Program and the Trend Toward a Citizens' Basic Income in Brazil
64	April 2003	Widerquist, Karl	Citizens Capital Accounts: A Proposal
65	December 2003	Widerquist, Karl	Economic Possibilities of our Grandparents
66	January 2004	Leland Neuberg	Emergence and Defeat of Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan
67	January 2004	Farina, Pete	The Case Against Income Inequality: Unequal Income Is Unequal Citizenship
68	January 2004	Sheahen, Al	Does Everyone Have a Right to a Basic Income Guarantee
69	January 2004	Theodore, Carla	Utopia or Oblivion
70	January 2004	McGuire, George	Green Capitalism
71	January 2004	Bezruchka, Stephen	BIG Medicine for Achieving Population Health in the U.S.
72	February 2004	Murphy, Jason	That We May Know What We Want: Towards an Argument for a Basic Income Guarantee Based On Deliberation
73	February 2004	Noguchi, Eri and Lewis, Michael A.	Unconditional Basic Income: A Basic Condition of a Better Society?
74	February 2004	Wetzell, David	On Some Unappreciated Implications of Becker’s time Allocation Model of Labor Supply
75	February 2004	Keely, Louise, C. and Tan, Chih Ming	What Role Does Identity Play in the Preference for Income Redistribution?
76	February 2004	Lewis, Michael A. and Farberman, Harvey A.	The Cost of Caring: The Impact of Caring for the Elderly on Women’s Earnings
77	February 2004	Wetzell, David, L.	On the Welfare Effects of a Wage Floor in a Two-Sector Labor Market with Impoverished Workers
78	February 2004	Widerquist, Karl	Freedom as the Power to Say No
79	February 2004	Tcherneva, Pavlina R.	Job or Income Guarantee?
80	February 2004	Clark, Charles M. A.	Ending Poverty in America: The First Step
81	March 2004	Hughes, James	Embrace the End of Work
82	March 2004	Hartzok, Alanna	Citizen Dividends and Oil Resource Rents
83	April 2004	Dyan, Paula	How It Feels to Be Homeless
84	April 2004	Tideman, Nicolaus	The Ethics of Basic Income Grants
85	May 2004	Widerquist, Karl	Does She Exploit or Doesn’t She?
86	June 2004	Levine et al	A Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments
87	July 2004	Howard, Michael	Basic Income and Migration Policy: A Moral Dilemma?
88	July 2004	Widerquist, Karl	Freedom as the Power to say no
89	July 2004	Smith, Jeffery J.	The Citizen’s Dividend: Sharing the Wealth of the Commons
90	August 2004	Füllsack, Manfred	BI as a “Medium”? An “un-ethical” approach to the BI-debate
91	August 2004	Noguchi, Eri and Michael Lewis	In Defense of Lazy: An Argument for Less Work, More Community
92	August 2004	Nattras, Nicoli	AIDS and the Disability Grant in South Africa: Further Reasons for Introducing a Basic Income Grant
93	August 2004	Sheahen, Al and Karl Widerquist	A Proposal to Transform the Standard Deduction into a Refundable Tax Credit
94	August 2004	Lewis, Michael A. and Eri Noguchi	Class-Based Inequities in Civic Participation: Some Possible Reasons, One Possible Solution
95	September 2004	Frankman, Myron J.	Ample Room at the Top: Financing a Planet-Wide Basic Income
96	October 2004	Howard, Michael	Basic Income and Migration Policy: A Moral Dilemma?
97	December 2004	Tomlinson, John, Penny Harrington, and Simon Schooneveldt	Why Australian Workers and Unions Should Support Basic Income
98	January 2005	Pizzigati, Sam	Can a Society with a Very Rich Be Decent to the Very Poor? The case of a “maximum wage”
99	January 2005	Colombo, Gianluca, Andrea Fumagalli, Stefano Lucarelli, Jacopo Mazza, Edoardo Mollona, and Cosma Orsi	Testing the Value of Solidarity and the Implementation of Social Cohesion Policies
100	February 2005	Daly, Lew	Whatever Happened to Unearned Income?
101	February 2005	Wirengard, Robert	Capitalist Living Dividend, Not a Living Wage
102	February 2005	Farris, Buford	The Compassionate Face of Religion: A Grounding for a Guaranteed Income
103	February 2005	Marangos, John	Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and Thomas Spence (1750-1814) on Basic Income Guarantee
104	February 2005	Noguchi, Eri and Michael Lewis	So Long As There Are Bad Jobs, There Will Be Poor Workers: An Argument for an Anti-Poverty Policy NOT Dependent on the Labor Market
105	February 2005	Dietsch, Peter	Institutions as Motivational Bootstrapping
106	February 2005	Marx, Axel and Hans Peeters	An Unconditional Basic Income and Labor Supply: Results From a Survey of Lottery Winners
107	February 2005	Bouquin, Stephen	The local exchange system
108	February 2005	Swanson, David	Basic Income Guarantee Versus the Corporate Media
109	March 2005	Widerquist, Karl	Justice as Voluntary Agreements
110	March 2005	Howard, Michael W.	Basic income and job guarantees: alternatives or complements?
111	March 2005	Wright, Erik Olin	Basic Income as a Socialist Project
112	March 2005	Tcherneva, Pavlina and L. Randall Wray	Common Goals—Different Solutions: Can Basic Income and Job Guarantees Deliver Their Own Promises
113	March 2005	Zelleke, Almaz	A Feminist Critique of Reciprocity and Conditionality
114	March 2005	Busilacchi, Gianluca	Two Problems, One Solution: The Earth Basic Income
115	March 2005	George, Robley	Socioeconomic Democracy: A Democratic Basic Income Guarantee
116	April 2005	Opielka, Michael	Complex Justice and Basic Income
117	April 2005	Clark, Robert F.	The Earth as a Common Trust: Implications for a Minimum Income Guarantee
118	April 2005	Kittay, Eva	Dependency-Independent Justice: Is BIG the answer
119	April 2005	Kunnemann, Rolf	Basic Food Income—Option or Obligation
120	April 2005	Stevens, Jillynn	Social Welfare Policy: Controlling Gender, Race and Class
121	April 2005	Seekings, Jeremy	Prospects for Basic Income in Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Welfare Regimes in the South
122	May 2005	Danahey, Patrick	Education And The Democratic Sovereignty Of The People: A Human Rights Approach Towards Introducing And Entrenching The Full Integration And Implementation Of A Universal Income Beyond The Duration Of Elected Governments
123	May 2005	Calderon Cuevas, Eduardo and Oscar Valiente Gonzalez	Basic Income as a Policy to Fight Child Labour
124	May 2005	Birnbaum, Simon	Real Libertarianism, Structural Injustice and the Democratic Ideal
125	May 2005	Yamamori, Rotu	Basic Income and Capability Approach: On Recognition and Deconstruction for Difference
126	May 2005	Cruz, Maria Núbia Alves Maíra C. P. Colares, Michelle dos Santos Diniz, Murillo Marschner A. de Brito, Ada Ávila Assunção	When Financial Benefits Guarantee School Attendance Without Children and Adolescents Stopping Work: the bolsa escola case of the Municipal Government of Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
127	May 2005	Jahn, Jens-Eberhard	Problems of a Programmatic UBI Debate Within the German Party of Democratic Socialism