The Cost of UBI

Jack Rossbach and Karl Widerquist, 2026, “The Falling Cost of Basic Income: Updated and Expanded Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations.Basic Income Studies, pages 1-37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2025-0024

Karl Widerquist, 2024, “Functional Finance and the Sustainability of Universal Basic Income [open access],” Basic Income Studies 19 (1), 15-29, April. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2023-0024

Georg Arndt and Karl Widerquist, 2023, “The Cost of Basic Income in the United Kingdom: A
Microsimulation Analysis,” the International Journal of Microsimulation 16 (3), 1-18,
December, DOI: https://doi.org/10.34196/ijm.00286

Georg Arndt and Karl Widerquist, 2019, “Deceptively Simple: The Uselessness of Gross Cost in the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Universal Basic Income,” Maine Policy Review, November

Karl Widerquist, 2017, “The Cost of Basic Income: Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations,” Basic Income Studies 12 (2), December