This blog is mostly about my research and related politics and activism, but sometimes I write on anything
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in December 2006. Four basic income advocates died in November 2006. Noble-Laureate Milton Friedman (Nov. 16), Brazilian economist Antonio Maria da Silveira (Nov.21), former director of the Citizens Income Trust […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in October 2008. In January 2008, a Basic Income Grant (BIG) pilot project began in the Otjivero-Omitara area in Namibia. All residents below the age of 60 years receive a […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in June 2008. What does the Stone Age have to do with modern justice? According to property rights advocates: everything; their arguments rely on two factual claims that can be […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in February 2008. The unexpected success of Mike Huckabee in the Republican primaries has given a substantial boost to the small movement to replace all federal taxes with a national sales […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in November 2007. Public awareness of BIG took a small step forward this summer when the Simpsons Movie made a joke about it. Homer and his family are greeted at the Alaskan […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in April 2007. Republican Presidential Candidate Tommy Thompson has endorsed BIG—at least in a foreign country. On his campaign website, the former Wisconsin Governor calls himself “the reliable conservative in […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in September 2006. I was struck by a report in the Associated Press reported on October 12th that a 63-year-old Ohio man intentionally had himself convicted of bank robbery. Timothy […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in March 2006. Congressman Bob Filner (Democrat from San Diego, California) will introduce a bill in the U.S. Congress in late April 2006, entitled, “A Tax Cut For the Rest […]
This audio is of talk I gave on why we need a Universal Basic Income. I gave the talk for the “Sydney Ideas” series in August of 2017, and I’m particularly happy with it. It summarizes the reasons I think […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in December 2005. On November 6, at a conference on greater economic integration in the Americas in Brasilia, just after his 22 minutes conference in Brasilia, President Bush extended his […]