Universal Basic Income: Essential Knowledge
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Karl Widerquist
“The Ethics of Universal Basic Income:” videos and readings from a Masters Seminar
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 […]
Property and the Power to Say No: My new old book manuscript
An early version of my manuscript, Property and the Power to Say No: Five Arguments for Universal Basic Income is now available online. This manuscript is my first statement of the “indepentarian” theory of justice, I call, “Justice […]
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Functional Finance and Universal Basic Income
“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 […]
Enormous Increase in Support for UBI Over the Last 10 Years, Polls Indicate
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 […]
The Essential Reason I Support UBI
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 […]
A Simple Solution to End the Labor Shortage in Five Minutes
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 […]
The Prehistory of Private Property: Chapter-by-Chapter Summary
The book, the Prehistory of Private Property by Grant S. McCall an me, examines the origin and development of the private property rights system from prehistory to the present day to debunk three widely accepted false beliefs about the private […]
Possibilities and Pitfalls of Basic Income Experiments
This article briefly discusses the findings of my bookA Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and CitizensPublished by Palgrave Macmillan 2018[1] If the public debate over Universal Basic Income (UBI) is going to benefit from the […]