Hosted by Karl Widerquist (Karl@widerquist.com)Tuesdays 16:00 (s.t.) – 18:15 May 10 Video: Simon März, Video: “An extensive Universal Basic Income pilot study in Germany. A critical analysis of the proposed implementation of a UBI pilot study; further fields of research […]
Professor Karl WiderquistKarl@Widerquist.com Fridays, 3:15 pm to 5:30 or so, April 29 to June 3, 2022any anytime online The University of Freiburg This seminar is based largley on my book, A Critical Discussion of Basic Income Experiments. It attended mostly […]
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 […]