The Cost of UBI

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• 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, 2020, “The Cost of Basic Income in the United Kingdom: A Microsimulation Analysis,” Discussion paper.
• 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
• I did not write this one, but this article includes a very good, easily understandable explanation of my position on the cost of UBI: Is a Universal Basic Income System Even Possible? By Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo, July 24, 2024
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