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
149	February 2006	Morrison, Roy	A Basic Income Grant and a Sustainable Future
182	February 2008	Suplicy, Senator Eduardo	A Basic Income to Democratize and Pacify Iraq
167	February 2007	Bambrick, Laura	A BIG Response to Wollstonecraft’s Dilemma
5	May-01	Lewis, Michael	A Critique of Phelps' Welfare Economic Justification of Wage Subsidies
142	February 2006	Clark, Stephen C.	A Declaration of Independences
175	May 2007	Widerquist, Karl	A Dilemma for Libertarians
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
113	March-05	Zelleke, Almaz	A Feminist Critique of Reciprocity and Conditionality
17	February-02	Morrison, Roy	A Framework for Justice and Fairness
168	February 2007	Wetzell, David L	A New Kind of Index Fund Designed to Grow the Social Security Trust Fund
139	December 2005	Bloom, Abe and Steve Bloom	A proposal to establish a social fund in the USA to eliminate poverty through a tax surcharge on households earning incomes of more than $100,000 per year
93	August-04	Sheahen, Al and Karl Widerquist	A Proposal to Transform the Standard Deduction into a Refundable Tax Credit
44	January-03	Farris, Buford	A Real War on Poverty: Guaranteed Income Plus
86	June-04	Levine et al	A Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments
10	February-02	Bergmann. Barbara R.	A Swedish-Style Welfare State Or Basic Income: Which Should Have Priority?
92	August-04	Nattras, Nicoli	AIDS and the Disability Grant in South Africa: Further Reasons for Introducing a Basic Income Grant
95	September-04	Frankman, Myron J.	Ample Room at the Top: Financing a Planet-Wide Basic Income
106	February-05	Marx, Axel and Hans Peeters	An Unconditional Basic Income and Labor Supply: Results From a Survey of Lottery Winners
136	September 2005	Bugra, Ayse and Caglar Keyder	Arguing for Basic Income in Turkey: Main Challenges
138	October 2005	Clark, Robert F.	Assaulting Global Poverty: Shortfalls and Proposed Remedy
119	April-05	Kunnemann, Rolf	Basic Food Income—Option or Obligation
135	September 2005	Bergh, Andreas	Basic Income – With or Without Bismarckian Social Insurance?
125	May-05	Yamamori, Toru	Basic Income and Capability Approach: On Recognition and Deconstruction for Difference
110	March-05	Howard, Michael W.	Basic income and job guarantees: alternatives or complements?
87	July-04	Howard, Michael	Basic Income and Migration Policy: A Moral Dilemma?
96	October-04	Howard, Michael	Basic Income and Migration Policy: A Moral Dilemma?
132	August 2005	Howard, Michael W.	Basic Income and Migration Policy: A Moral Dilemma?
3	December-00	Block, Fred	Basic Income and the Shadow of Speedhamland
123	May-05	Calderon Cuevas, Eduardo and Oscar Valiente Gonzalez	Basic Income as a Policy to Fight Child Labour
111	March-05	Wright, Erik Olin	Basic Income as a Socialist Project
108	February-05	Swanson, David	Basic Income Guarantee Versus the Corporate Media
22	February-02	Zelleke, Almaz	Basic Income in the United States: Redefining Citizenship in the Liberal State
178	January 2008	Jubb, Rob	Basic Income, Effective Control Self-Ownership, and Market Power
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
29	March-02	Clark, Charles M. A.	Basic Income: Promoting Social Justice in a 21st Century Economy
46	January-03	Neuberg, Leland G.	Beyond Basic Incomes and Stakes: Toward a More Egalitarian Society
28	March-02	Shafarman, Steven	Beyond Left vs. Right: A New Political Discourse
150	February 2006	Füllsack, Manfred	BI – a “historical necessity”? Sketch for a “functional” approach to the BI-debate
90	August-04	Füllsack, Manfred	BI as a “Medium”? An “un-ethical” approach to the BI-debate
154	March 2006	McGuire, George	Big and the Flat Tax - A Populist Essay
71	January-04	Bezruchka, Stephen	BIG Medicine for Achieving Population Health in the U.S.
47	January-03	Fumagalli, Andrea	Bioeconomics, labor flexibility and cognitive work: the unequal exchange
62	February-03	Dahms, Harry F.	Breaking the Glass Cage: How Basic Income is a Quantitatively Different Social Policy Paradigm
165	February 2007	Smith, Jeffery J.	Can a Citizens Dividend Replace Welfare?
98	January-05	Pizzigati, Sam	Can a Society with a Very Rich Be Decent to the Very Poor? The case of a “maximum wage”
43	November-02	Thurlow, James	Can South Africa Afford to Become Africa's First Welfare State?
41	November-02	Rey Pérez, José Luis	Can we argue for a human right to Basic Income?
101	February-05	Wirengard, Robert	Capitalist Living Dividend, Not a Living Wage
58	February-03	Opielka, Michael	Carework Salaries: The German Case and Beyond
4	March-01	Clark, Charles M.A.	Changing Labour Markets: Towards Real Flexibility
82	March-04	Hartzok, Alanna	Citizen Dividends and Oil Resource Rents
152	February 2006	Suplicy, Eduardo Matarazzo	Citizen’s Basic Income: The Answer is Blowing in Wind
64	April-03	Widerquist, Karl	Citizens Capital Accounts: A Proposal
134	September 2005	Noguera, Jose Antonio	Citizens or Workers? Basic Income vs. Welfare-to-Work Policies
2	September-00	Widerquist, Karl	Citizenship or Obligation
183	February 2008	Roy, Christian	Civilian Service for Social Security? Basic Income and Labor Sharing in the Thought of Arnaud Dandieu
94	August-04	Lewis, Michael A. and Eri Noguchi	Class-Based Inequities in Civic Participation: Some Possible Reasons, One Possible Solution
112	March-05	Tcherneva, Pavlina and L. Randall Wray	Common Goals—Different Solutions: Can Basic Income and Job Guarantees Deliver Their Own Promises
185	February 2008	Farris, Buford	Compassionate Liberalism as a Frame for a Renewed War on Poverty
116	April-05	Opielka, Michael	Complex Justice and Basic Income
147	February 2006	Gonzalez Bailon, Sandra and David Casassas	Corporate Watch, Consumer Responsibility, and Economic Democracy: Forms of political action in the orbit of basic income
180	February 2008	Howard, Michael	Cosmopolitanism and Self-Determination
118	April-05	Kittay, Eva	Dependency-Independent Justice: Is BIG the answer