USBIG: Discussion Paper Series

Discussion Papers

The USBIG discussion paper series makes available papers in progress about or relating to the Basic Income Guarantee as a forum for discussion in advance of publication. If you would like to submit a paper for this series, send an electronic copy to Karl@Widerquist.com. Please follow the instructions for authors for all submissions.

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#	Date / reverse	Author a - z	Title a - z
1	May-00	Harris, Robert	The Guaranteed Income Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
2	September-00	Widerquist, Karl	Citizenship or Obligation
3	December-00	Block, Fred	Basic Income and the Shadow of Speedhamland
4	March-01	Clark, Charles M.A.	Changing Labour Markets: Towards Real Flexibility
5	May-01	Lewis, Michael	A Critique of Phelps' Welfare Economic Justification of Wage Subsidies
6	November-01	Wax, Amy	Something for Nothing: The Liberal Case Against Welfare Work Requirements
7	January-02	Cunliffe, John and Guido Erreygers	Inheritance and Equal Shares: Early American Views
8	February-02	Smith, Jeffery J	From Red to Green: From Income to Rents as the Funding Source for a Social Salary
9	February-02	Howard, Michael W.	Liberal and Marxist Justifications for Basic Income
10	February-02	Bergmann. Barbara R.	A Swedish-Style Welfare State Or Basic Income: Which Should Have Priority?
11	February-02	Farris, Buford	Was it only a Dream: Guaranteed Income through the eyes of a Sixties Poverty Warrior in Texas
12	February-02	Sheahen, Al	Does Everyone Have a Right to a Basic Income Guarantee?
13	February-02	Sheahan, Al	Why not Guarantee Everyone a Job? Why the Negative Income Tax Experiments of the 1970s were Successful
14	February-02	Garfinkel, Irwin, Chien-Chung Huang, Wendy Naidich,	Effects Of Tax Rebates on Poverty and Income Distribution
15	February-02	Lewis, Michael	Perhaps There Can be Too Much Freedom
16	February-02	Wolff, Ed	Recent Trends in Living Standards in the United States
17	February-02	Morrison, Roy	A Framework for Justice and Fairness
18	February-02	Bryan, James B.	Did the U.S. Welfare Reforms of 1996 and the Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit Eliminate the Need for a Basic Income Guarantee?
19	February-02	Laurent, Thierry and Yannick L’Horty	Static vs. Dynamic Inactivity Trap on the Labor Market: Revisiting the “Making Work Pay” Issue.
20	February-02	Bouquin, Stephen & Catherine Levy	Social minima a part of recommodification of labour? Critical assessment concerning the tendencies towards basic income
21	February-02	Pressman, Steven	Guaranteed Incomes and the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff
22	February-02	Zelleke, Almaz	Basic Income in the United States: Redefining Citizenship in the Liberal State
23	February-02	Nattrass, Nicoli and Jeremy Seekings	The Political-Economy of a Basic Income Grant in South Africa
24	February-02	Shafarman, Steven	Ending Hunger, Homelessness, and Debilitating Poverty: Comparing BIG and other approaches
25	March-02	Waltman, Jerold	The Basic Income Guarantee and the Living Wage: A Comparative Anatomy
26	March-02	Van Trier, Walter	Who Framed ‘Social Dividend’?
27	March-02	Widerquist, Karl	Who Exploits Who?
28	March-02	Shafarman, Steven	Beyond Left vs. Right: A New Political Discourse
29	March-02	Clark, Charles M. A.	Basic Income: Promoting Social Justice in a 21st Century Economy
30	March-02	Widerquist, Karl	Phelp’s Economic Discipline as Undisciplined Economics
31	March-02	Caputo, Richard K.	FAP Flops: Lessons Learned from the Failure to Pass the Family Assistance Plan in 1970 and 1972?
32	March-02	Clark, Stephen C.	Funding a Basic Income Guarantee Considering Size, Political Viability, and Pipeline
33	March-02	Frankman, Myron	Funding a Planet-Wide Citizen's Income: Trial Calculations
34	April-02	Suplicy, Eduardo	From a Minimum Income to a Basic Income in Brazil
35	May-02	Shafarman, Steven	Welfare and the True Meaning of “Conservative”
36	May-02	Widerquist, Karl	The Stakeholder Account System
37	July-02	Handler, Joel	Social Citizenship and Workfare in the U.S. and Western Europe: From Status to Contract
38	September-02	Widerquist, Karl	A Failure to Communicate: The Labor Market Findings of the Negative Income Tax Experiments and Their Effects on Policy and Public Opinion
39	November-02	Cruz Basso, Leonardo Fernando	Meritorious currency: a currency against famine
40	November-02	Hernández Losada, Diego Fernando	Universal basic income as a preferential social dividend
41	November-02	Rey Pérez, José Luis	Can we argue for a human right to Basic Income?
42	November-02	Shafarman, Steven	Mobilizing Support for Basic Income
43	November-02	Thurlow, James	Can South Africa Afford to Become Africa's First Welfare State?
44	January-03	Farris, Buford	A Real War on Poverty: Guaranteed Income Plus
45	January-03	Smith, Jeffery	Not the Left, but a Critical Mass Will win, not BI, but Rent Dividends
46	January-03	Neuberg, Leland G.	Beyond Basic Incomes and Stakes: Toward a More Egalitarian Society
47	January-03	Fumagalli, Andrea	Bioeconomics, labor flexibility and cognitive work: the unequal exchange
48	January-03	Funicello, Theresa	Getting on a path to just distribution: The Caregiver Credit Campaign
49	January-03	Clark, Stephen	The Basic Income as a Foundation of a Sound Currency and a Free and Open Market
50	January-03	Laurent, Thierry and Yannick L’Horty	Basic Income/Minimum Wage Schedule and the Occurrence of Inactivity Traps : Some Evidence on the French Labor Market
51	January-03	Handler, Joel	Myth and Ceremony in Workfare: Rights, Contracts, and Client Satisfaction
52	January-03	Murphy, Jason and John Buerck	Thinking Machines, Automated Administration, Employment and Citizen’s Participation
53	January-03	Sheahen, Allan	Does Everyone Have the Right to a Basic Income Guarantee?
54	January-03	Henriques, Manuel	The Guaranteed Minimum Income Schemes in the European Union, the Crisis in the European Social Policy Model and the Lessons from the USA
55	February-03	Neuberg, Leland G.	What Defeated a Negative Income Tax?: Constructing a Causal Explanation of a Politically Controversial Historical Event
56	February-03	Wax, Amy	The Political Psychology of Social Security: – Obstacles to Reform
57	February-03	Harvey, Philip	The Right to Work and Basic Income Guarantees: A Comparative Assessment
58	February-03	Opielka, Michael	Carework Salaries: The German Case and Beyond
59	February-03	Zelleke, Almaz	Distributive Justice and the Argument for Basic Income
60	February-03	Bryan, James B.	Targeted Programs v. The Basic Income Guarantee: An Examination of the Efficiency Costs of Funding Different Forms of Redistribution
61	February-03	Harman, Eva	Social Grants and their Social Circulations
62	February-03	Dahms, Harry F.	Breaking the Glass Cage: How Basic Income is a Quantitatively Different Social Policy Paradigm
63	April-03	Suplicy, Eduardo Matarazzzo	President Lula's Zero Hunger Program and the Trend Toward a Citizens' Basic Income in Brazil
64	April-03	Widerquist, Karl	Citizens Capital Accounts: A Proposal
65	December-03	Widerquist, Karl	Economic Possibilities of our Grandparents
66	January-04	Leland Neuberg	Emergence and Defeat of Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan
67	January-04	Farina, Pete	The Case Against Income Inequality: Unequal Income Is Unequal Citizenship
68	January-04	Sheahen, Al	Does Everyone Have a Right to a Basic Income Guarantee
69	January-04	Theodore, Carla	Utopia or Oblivion
70	January-04	McGuire, George	Green Capitalism