The masters seminar “Ethics of Universal Basic Income” took place over six weeks in January and February 2022 at the University of Freiburg. These videos of the seminar are posted on my YouTube Channel both as a playlist and individually: […]
Although some mainstream and some functional finance/MMT economists agree that a livable level of UBI is sustainable, some economists in both camps argue that it is not. (See my previous post for definitions of mainstream, functional finance, and MMT.) […]
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I’m teach a six-week masters seminar called “the Ethics of Universal Basic Income” (UBI) at the University of Freiburg, over six Fridays, January 7 – February 11, 2022. If you’d like to follow along, I’ll post the lectures on YouTube […]
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article announces the posting of an early draft of a manuscript that was later published in different forms under different titles. An early version of my manuscript, Property and the Power to Say No: Five Arguments […]
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“Functional finance” is a “heterodox” or “nonmainstream” economic theory that was originally developed by Abba Lerner in the 1940s. It’s best known today in one specific form of it called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). In this form, functional […]
Two polls conducted in 2021 both found that a substantial majority of Americans now support Universal Basic Income (UBI) or some form of Guaranteed Income. One survey, conducted by Data for Progress, found that 55% of Americans support UBI while […]
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article is a draft of the first chapter of the book I’m working on: Universal Basic Income: Essential Knowledge. It can also be thought of as a reply to Bitch Bastardly’s guest article from last week. Comments […]
By Guest Blogger, Bitch Bastardly Workers aren’t working for the wages we’re offering as much as they used to. Five million fewer Americans are working now than were working in June of 2019. That’s 3.33% of the U.S. labor force—a […]