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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1 2000-05 Harris, Robert The Guaranteed Income Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. (doc)
2 2000-09 Widerquist, Karl Citizenship or Obligation (doc)
3 2000-12 Block, Fred Basic Income and the Shadow of Speedhamland (doc)
4 2001-03 Clark, Charles M.A. Changing Labour Markets: Towards Real Flexibility (doc)
5 2001-05 Lewis, Michael A Critique of Phelps' Welfare Economic Justification of Wage Subsidies (doc)
6 2001-11 Wax, Amy Something for Nothing: The Liberal Case Against Welfare Work Requirements (doc)
7 2002-01 Cunliffe, John and Guido Erreygers Inheritance and Equal Shares: Early American Views (pdf)
8 2002-02 Smith, Jeffery J From Red to Green: From Income to Rents as the Funding Source for a Social Salary (doc)
9 2002-02 Howard, Michael W. Liberal and Marxist Justifications for Basic Income (doc)
10 2002-02 Bergmann. Barbara R. A Swedish-Style Welfare State Or Basic Income: Which Should Have Priority? (pdf)
11 2002-02 Farris, Buford Was it only a Dream: Guaranteed Income through the eyes of a Sixties Poverty Warrior in Texas (doc)
12 2002-02 Sheahen, Al Does Everyone Have a Right to a Basic Income Guarantee? (doc)
13 2002-02 Sheahan, Al Why not Guarantee Everyone a Job? Why the Negative Income Tax Experiments of the 1970s were Successful (doc)
14 2002-02 Garfinkel, Irwin, Chien-Chung Huang, Wendy Naidich, Effects Of Tax Rebates on Poverty and Income Distribution (doc)
15 2002-02 Lewis, Michael Perhaps There Can be Too Much Freedom (doc)
16 2002-02 Wolff, Ed Recent Trends in Living Standards in the United States (doc)
17 2002-02 Morrison, Roy A Framework for Justice and Fairness (doc)
18 2002-02 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? (doc)
19 2002-02 Laurent, Thierry and Yannick L’Horty Static vs. Dynamic Inactivity Trap on the Labor Market: Revisiting the “Making Work Pay” Issue. (DOC)
20 2002-02 Bouquin, Stephen & Catherine Levy Social minima a part of recommodification of labour? Critical assessment concerning the tendencies towards basic income (doc)
21 2002-02 Pressman, Steven Guaranteed Incomes and the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff (doc)
22 2002-02 Zelleke, Almaz Basic Income in the United States: Redefining Citizenship in the Liberal State (doc)
23 2002-02 Nattrass, Nicoli and Jeremy Seekings The Political-Economy of a Basic Income Grant in South Africa (doc)
24 2002-02 Shafarman, Steven Ending Hunger, Homelessness, and Debilitating Poverty: Comparing BIG and other approaches (doc)
25 2002-03 Waltman, Jerold The Basic Income Guarantee and the Living Wage: A Comparative Anatomy (doc)
26 2002-03 Van Trier, Walter Who Framed ‘Social Dividend’? (doc)
27 2002-03 Widerquist, Karl Who Exploits Who? (doc)
28 2002-03 Shafarman, Steven Beyond Left vs. Right: A New Political Discourse (doc)
29 2002-03 Clark, Charles M. A. Basic Income: Promoting Social Justice in a 21st Century Economy (doc)
30 2002-03 Widerquist, Karl Phelp’s Economic Discipline as Undisciplined Economics (doc)
31 2002-03 Caputo, Richard K. FAP Flops: Lessons Learned from the Failure to Pass the Family Assistance Plan in 1970 and 1972? (doc)
32 2002-03 Clark, Stephen C. Funding a Basic Income Guarantee Considering Size, Political Viability, and Pipeline (doc)
33 2002-03 Frankman, Myron Funding a Planet-Wide Citizen's Income: Trial Calculations (html)
34 2002-04 Suplicy, Eduardo From a Minimum Income to a Basic Income in Brazil (doc)
35 2002-05 Shafarman, Steven Welfare and the True Meaning of “Conservative” (doc)
36 2002-05 Widerquist, Karl The Stakeholder Account System (doc)
37 2002-07 Handler, Joel Social Citizenship and Workfare in the U.S. and Western Europe: From Status to Contract (htm)
38 2002-09 Widerquist, Karl A Failure to Communicate: The Labor Market Findings of the Negative Income Tax Experiments and Their Effects on Policy and Public Opinion (doc)
39 2002-11 Cruz Basso, Leonardo Fernando Meritorious currency: a currency against famine (doc)
40 2002-11 Hern Universal basic income as a preferential social dividend (doc)
41 2002-11 Rey Pérez, José Luis Can we argue for a human right to Basic Income? (doc)
42 2002-11 Shafarman, Steven Mobilizing Support for Basic Income (doc)
43 2002-11 Thurlow, James Can South Africa Afford to Become Africa's First Welfare State? (doc)
44 2003-01 Farris, Buford A Real War on Poverty: Guaranteed Income Plus (doc)
45 2003-01 Smith, Jeffery Not the Left, but a Critical Mass Will win, not BI, but Rent Dividends (doc)
46 2003-01 Neuberg, Leland G. Beyond Basic Incomes and Stakes: Toward a More Egalitarian Society (doc)
47 2003-01 Fumagalli, Andrea Bioeconomics, labor flexibility and cognitive work: the unequal exchange (doc)
48 2003-01 Funicello, Theresa Getting on a path to just distribution: The Caregiver Credit Campaign (doc)
49 2003-01 Clark, Stephen The Basic Income as a Foundation of a Sound Currency and a Free and Open Market (doc)
50 2003-01 Laurent, Thierry and Yannick L’Horty Basic Income/Minimum Wage Schedule and the Occurrence of Inactivity Traps : Some Evidence on the French Labor Market (doc)
51 2003-01 Handler, Joel Myth and Ceremony in Workfare: Rights, Contracts, and Client Satisfaction (doc)
52 2003-01 Murphy, Jason and John Buerck Thinking Machines, Automated Administration, Employment and Citizen’s Participation (doc)
53 2003-01 Sheahen, Allan Does Everyone Have the Right to a Basic Income Guarantee? (doc)
54 2003-01 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 (doc)
55 2003-02 Neuberg, Leland G. What Defeated a Negative Income Tax?: Constructing a Causal Explanation of a Politically Controversial Historical Event (doc)
56 2003-02 Wax, Amy The Political Psychology of Social Security: (doc)
57 2003-02 Harvey, Philip The Right to Work and Basic Income Guarantees: A Comparative Assessment (doc)
58 2003-02 Opielka, Michael Carework Salaries: The German Case and Beyond (doc)
59 2003-02 Zelleke, Almaz Distributive Justice and the Argument for Basic Income (htm)
60 2003-02 Bryan, James B. Targeted Programs v. The Basic Income Guarantee: An Examination of the Efficiency Costs of Funding Different Forms of Redistribution (doc)
61 2003-02 Harman, Eva Social Grants and their Social Circulations (doc)
62 2003-02 Dahms, Harry F. Breaking the Glass Cage: How Basic Income is a Quantitatively Different Social Policy Paradigm (doc)
63 2003-04 Suplicy, Eduardo Matarazzzo President Lula's Zero Hunger Program and the Trend Toward a Citizens' Basic Income in Brazil (doc)
64 2003-04 Widerquist, Karl Citizens Capital Accounts: A Proposal (doc)
65 2003-12 Widerquist, Karl Economic Possibilities of our Grandparents (doc)
66 2004-01 Leland Neuberg Emergence and Defeat of Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan (doc)
67 2004-01 Farina, Pete The Case Against Income Inequality: Unequal Income Is Unequal Citizenship (doc)
68 2004-01 Sheahen, Al Does Everyone Have a Right to a Basic Income Guarantee (doc)
69 2004-01 Theodore, Carla Utopia or Oblivion (doc)
70 2004-01 McGuire, George Green Capitalism (doc)
71 2004-01 Bezruchka, Stephen BIG Medicine for Achieving Population Health in the U.S. (doc)
72 2004-02 Murphy, Jason That We May Know What We Want: Towards an Argument for a Basic Income Guarantee Based On Deliberation (doc)
73 2004-02 Noguchi, Eri and Lewis, Michael A. Unconditional Basic Income: A Basic Condition of a Better Society? (doc)
74 2004-02 Wetzell, David On Some Unappreciated Implications of Becker’s time Allocation Model of Labor Supply (DOC)
75 2004-02 Keely, Louise, C. and Tan, Chih Ming What Role Does Identity Play in the Preference for Income Redistribution? (pdf)
76 2004-02 Lewis, Michael A. and Farberman, Harvey A. The Cost of Caring: The Impact of Caring for the Elderly on Women’s Earnings (doc)
77 2004-02 Wetzell, David, L. On the Welfare Effects of a Wage Floor in a Two-Sector Labor Market with Impoverished Workers (DOC)
78 2004-02 Widerquist, Karl Freedom as the Power to Say No (doc)
79 2004-02 Tcherneva, Pavlina R. Job or Income Guarantee? (doc)
80 2004-02 Clark, Charles M. A. Ending Poverty in America: The First Step (doc)
81 2004-03 Hughes, James Embrace the End of Work (doc)
82 2004-03 Hartzok, Alanna Citizen Dividends and Oil Resource Rents (doc)
83 2004-04 Dyan, Paula How It Feels to Be Homeless (doc)
84 2004-04 Tideman, Nicolaus The Ethics of Basic Income Grants (doc)
85 2004-05 Widerquist, Karl Does She Exploit or Doesn’t She? (doc)
86 2004-06 Levine et al A Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments (doc)
87 2004-07 Howard, Michael Basic Income and Migration Policy: A Moral Dilemma? (doc)
88 2004-07 Widerquist, Karl Freedom as the Power to say no (doc)
89 2004-07 Smith, Jeffery J. The Citizen’s Dividend: Sharing the Wealth of the Commons (doc)
90 2004-08 Füllsack, Manfred BI as a “Medium”? An “un-ethical” approach to the BI-debate (doc)
91 2004-08 Noguchi, Eri and Michael Lewis In Defense of Lazy: An Argument for Less Work, More Community (doc)
92 2004-08 Nattras, Nicoli AIDS and the Disability Grant in South Africa: Further Reasons for Introducing a Basic Income Grant (doc)
93 2004-08 Sheahen, Al and Karl Widerquist A Proposal to Transform the Standard Deduction into a Refundable Tax Credit (doc)
94 2004-08 Lewis, Michael A. and Eri Noguchi Class-Based Inequities in Civic Participation: Some Possible Reasons, One Possible Solution (doc)
95 2004-09 Frankman, Myron J. Ample Room at the Top: Financing a Planet-Wide Basic Income (doc)
96 2004-10 Howard, Michael Basic Income and Migration Policy: A Moral Dilemma? (doc)
97 2004-12 Tomlinson, John, Penny Harrington, and Simon Schooneveldt Why Australian Workers and Unions Should Support Basic Income (doc)
98 2005-01 Pizzigati, Sam Can a Society with a Very Rich Be Decent to the Very Poor? The case of a “maximum wage” (doc)
99 2005-01 Colombo, Gianluca, Andrea Fumagalli, Stefano Lucarelli, Jacopo Mazza, Edoardo Mollona, and Cosma Orsi Testing the Value of Solidarity and the Implementation of Social Cohesion Policies (doc)
100 2005-02 Daly, Lew Whatever Happened to Unearned Income? (doc)
101 2005-02 Wirengard, Robert Capitalist Living Dividend, Not a Living Wage (doc)
102 2005-02 Farris, Buford The Compassionate Face of Religion: A Grounding for a Guaranteed Income (doc)
103 2005-02 Marangos, John Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and Thomas Spence (1750-1814) on Basic Income Guarantee (doc)
104 2005-02 Noguchi, Eri and Michael Lewis So Long As There Are Bad Jobs, There Will Be Poor Workers: An Argument for an Anti-Poverty Policy NOT Dependent on the Labor Market (doc)
105 2005-02 Dietsch, Peter Institutions as Motivational Bootstrapping (pdf)
106 2005-02 Marx, Axel and Hans Peeters An Unconditional Basic Income and Labor Supply: Results From a Survey of Lottery Winners (pdf)
107 2005-02 Bouquin, Stephen The local exchange system (doc)
108 2005-02 Swanson, David Basic Income Guarantee Versus the Corporate Media (doc)
109 2005-03 Widerquist, Karl Justice as Voluntary Agreements (doc)
110 2005-03 Howard, Michael W. Basic income and job guarantees: alternatives or complements? (doc)
111 2005-03 Wright, Erik Olin Basic Income as a Socialist Project (doc)
112 2005-03 Tcherneva, Pavlina and L. Randall Wray Common Goals (doc)
113 2005-03 Zelleke, Almaz A Feminist Critique of Reciprocity and Conditionality (doc)
114 2005-03 Busilacchi, Gianluca Two Problems, One Solution: The Earth Basic Income (doc)
115 2005-03 George, Robley Socioeconomic Democracy: A Democratic Basic Income Guarantee (doc)
116 2005-04 Opielka, Michael Complex Justice and Basic Income (doc)
117 2005-04 Clark, Robert F. The Earth as a Common Trust: Implications for a Minimum Income Guarantee (pdf)
118 2005-04 Kittay, Eva Dependency-Independent Justice: Is BIG the answer (doc)
119 2005-04 Kunnemann, Rolf Basic Food Income (doc)
120 2005-04 Stevens, Jillynn Social Welfare Policy: Controlling Gender, Race and Class (doc)
121 2005-04 Seekings, Jeremy Prospects for Basic Income in Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Welfare Regimes in the South (doc)
122 2005-05 Danahey, Patrick Education And The Democratic Sovereignty Of The People: A Human Rights Approach Towards Introducing And Entrenching The Full Integration And Implementation Of A Universal Income Beyond The Duration Of (pdf)
123 2005-05 Calderon Cuevas, Eduardo and Oscar Valiente Gonzalez Basic Income as a Policy to Fight Child Labour (pdf)
124 2005-05 Birnbaum, Simon Real Libertarianism, Structural Injustice and the Democratic Ideal (pdf)
125 2005-05 Yamamori, Toru Basic Income and Capability Approach: On Recognition and Deconstruction for Difference (pdf)
126 2005-05 Cruz, Maria N When Financial Benefits Guarantee School Attendance Without Children and Adolescents Stopping Work: the bolsa escola case of the Municipal Government of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) (pdf)
127 2005-05 Jahn, Jens-Eberhard Problems of a Programmatic UBI Debate Within the German Party of Democratic Socialism (pdf)
128 2005-07 da Silva e Silva, Maria Ozanira From a Minimum Income to a Citizenship Income: The Brazilian Experiences (pdf)
129 2005-07 Handler, Joel F. The False Promise of Workfare: Another Reason for a Basic Income Guarantee (pdf)
130 2005-08 Healy, Sean and Brigid Reynolds Introducing a Basic Income System Sector by Sector in Ireland (pdf)
131 2005-08 Suplicy, Eduardo Matarazzo The Approval and Sanctioning of the Basic Income Bill in Brazil: How it will be Implemented (pdf)
132 2005-08 Howard, Michael W. Basic Income and Migration Policy: A Moral Dilemma? (pdf)
133 2005-08 Nattrass, Nicoli The Challenge for Basic Income Posed by AIDS: Why an Incremental Approach Is Inadequate in South Africa (pdf)
134 2005-09 Noguera, Jose Antonio Citizens or Workers? Basic Income vs. Welfare-to-Work Policies (pdf)
135 2005-09 Bergh, Andreas Basic Income (pdf)
136 2005-09 Bugra, Ayse and Caglar Keyder Arguing for Basic Income in Turkey: Main Challenges (pdf)
137 2005-09 Elgarte, Julieta Magdalena Non-Domination, Real Freedom, and Basic Income (pdf)
138 2005-10 Clark, Robert F. Assaulting Global Poverty: Shortfalls and Proposed Remedy (pdf)
139 2005-12 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 (pdf)
140 2006-01 Mays, Jennifer Employment and Disability: Some Emerging Questions (pdf)
141 2006-01 Tomlinson, John Faint Praise for a Chimera: Selectivity versus Universalism in Social Policy (pdf)
142 2006-02 Clark, Stephen C. A Declaration of Independences (pdf)
143 2006-02 Janicke, Marie A. and Ellen A. Hadley National Sales Tax: Making a Basic Income Guarantee Palatable to the Powerful (pdf)
144 2006-02 Sheahen, Allen It’s Time to Think BIG! How to Simplify the Tax Code and Provide Every American with a Basic Income Guarantee (pdf)
145 2006-02 Smith, Jeffrey Fund BI Not from Income but from Outgo (pdf)
146 2006-02 Widerquist, Karl On Duty (pdf)
147 2006-02 Gonzalez Bailon, Sandra and David Casassas Corporate Watch, Consumer Responsibility, and Economic Democracy: Forms of political action in the orbit of basic income (pdf)
148 2006-02 Butler, Sam The Poverty of Politics (pdf)
149 2006-02 Morrison, Roy A Basic Income Grant and a Sustainable Future (pdf)
150 2006-02 Füllsack, Manfred BI - a “historical necessity”? Sketch for a “functional” approach to the BI-debate (pdf)
151 2006-02 Seekings, Jeremy Employment guarantee or minimum income? Workfare and welfare in developing countries (pdf)
152 2006-02 Suplicy, Eduardo Matarazzo Citizen’s Basic Income: The Answer is Blowing in Wind (pdf)
153 2006-02 Ji-Young, Yoo The Impact of TANF on Income, Poverty Rate and Poverty Gap among Women and their Families (pdf)
154 2006-03 McGuire, George Big and the Flat Tax - A Populist Essay (pdf)
155 2006-03 Widerquist, Karl The Basis of Voluntary Trade (pdf)
156 2006-03 Widerquist, Karl Property Rights by General Agreement (pdf)
157 2006-11 De Wispelaere, Jurgen and Lindsay Stirton The Public Administration Case Against Participation Income (pdf)
158 2006-11 Suplicy, Eduardo Matarazzo The possible Transition from the Bolsa-Fam (doc)
159 2006-12 Richa Looking at BIG from below (doc)
160 2007-01 Cook, Richard C. The Basic Income Guarantee and Monetary Reform: A Tale of Two Ideas (doc)
161 2007-01 Clark, Stephen C. The Juarez Plan (doc)
162 2007-02 Caputo, Richard K. The Death Knoll of BIG or BIG by Stealth: A Preliminary Assessment of UBIG Political Viability around the Globe (pdf)
163 2007-02 Farris, Buford Happy Workers. Welfare Queens and Surfers: Images in the Debate Around a Guaranteed Income (doc)
164 2007-02 Todd, Christine Poverty Reduction and Welfare Provision for Single Parents in Aotearoa / New Zealand and the United States - A Comparative Analysis (doc)
165 2007-02 Smith, Jeffery J. Can a Citizens Dividend Replace Welfare? (doc)
166 2007-02 Lewis, Michael A. What To Do About Care Work: Compensate Or Facilitate? (doc)
167 2007-02 Bambrick, Laura A BIG Response to Wollstonecraft’s Dilemma (doc)
168 2007-02 Wetzell, David L A New Kind of Index Fund Designed to Grow the Social Security Trust Fund (doc)
169 2007-02 Sheahen, Al The Rise and Fall of a Basic Income Guarantee Bill in the United States Congress (doc)
170 2007-02 Healy, Sean and Brigid Reynolds Making Tax Credits Refundable: A Pathway to Basic Income in Ireland? (doc)
171 2007-02 Schenk, Nadine Political Decision Making and Agenda Setting in South Africa: Why the Basic Income Grant has not (yet) been accepted by government in South Africa (doc)
172 2007-03 Tideman, Nicolaus The Ethics of Unequal Basic Income Guarantees (doc)
173 2007-03 Quaraishi, Sabrina How Empowering Is Microcredit: A Look At Grameen Bank (doc)
174 2007-03 Zelleke, Almaz Is ‘The Plan’ a Basic Income? An Assessment of Charles Murray’s Proposal to Replace the Welfare State with an (Almost) Universal Grant (doc)
175 2007-05 Widerquist, Karl A Dilemma for Libertarians (doc)
176 2007-05 Widerquist, Karl The Physical Basis of Voluntary Trade (doc)
177 2007-09 Widerquist, Karl Lockean Property Theory (doc)
178 2008-01 Jubb, Rob Basic Income, Effective Control Self-Ownership, and Market Power (doc)
179 2008-02 Sheahen, Al The Rise and Fall of a Basic Income Guarantee Bill in the U.S. Congress (doc)
180 2008-02 Howard, Michael Cosmopolitanism and Self-Determination (doc)
181 2008-02 Harvey, Phil Laying out the Argument for a Public Works Program (pdf)
182 2008-02 Suplicy, Senator Eduardo A Basic Income to Democratize and Pacify Iraq (doc)
183 2008-02 Roy, Christian Civilian Service for Social Security? Basic Income and Labor Sharing in the Thought of Arnaud Dandieu (doc)
184 2008-02 Clark, Stephen The Little Red Hen Thinks Again (doc)
185 2008-02 Farris, Buford Compassionate Liberalism as a Frame for a Renewed War on Poverty (doc)
186 2008-02 Mulvale, Jim The Guaranteed Adequate Income Debate in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities (doc)
187 2008-02 Nathanson, Stephen The Decent Level Criterion of Justice and Its Competitors (doc)
188 2008-03 Widerquist, Karl Status Freedom (doc)
189 2008-03 Smith, Jeffery J. How to Make BI inflation-proof while also raising wages (doc)
190 2009-01 Antonopoulos, Rania and Kim, Kijong Public job creation: A path to Inclusive and Gender Equitable Development (doc)
191 2009-02 Caputo, Richard K. Commentary on the book 'The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy' (pdf)
192 2009-02 Clark, Stephen C. Excalibrator Logarhythmic Floating Cybercurrency (pdf)
193 2009-02 Cook, Richard C. A Bailout for the People: Dividend Economics and the Basic Income Guarantee (pdf)
194 2009-02 Farris, Buford Sociology and Basic Income: A Case Study of Four Theorists (pdf)
195 2009-02 Gaffney, Mason George's Economics of Abundance: Replacing dismal choices with practical resolutions and synergies (pdf)
196 2009-02 Howard, Michael W. An Open Letter to President Obama on Environmental Justice (doc)
197 2009-02 Lloyd, Eron The Social Shareholder Model (pdf)
198 2009-02 Murphy, Jason Burke Baby Steps: On the Need for Incremental Victories (doc)
199 2009-02 Pech, Wesley Behavioral economics and the basic income grant: A critical evaluation (pdf)
200 2009-02 Pressman, Steven Justice and History: The big problem of Wilt Chamberlain (doc)
201 2009-02 Tideman, Nicolaus and Tsang, Kwok Ping Seigniorage as a Source for a Basic Income Guarantee (rtf)
202 2009-02 Vandenberghe, Marc Financial crisis: RIGHT on Basic Income for a stable financing of basics economy? (doc)
203 2009-04 Pasma, Chandra Working Through the Work Disincentive - April 2009 (doc)
204 2009-04 Eyal, Nir 207-Near-Universal_Basic_income_April2009.pdf (pdf)
205 2009-12 Richa A Basic Income Guarantee as Reparations for Group Injustice (html)
206 2010-6 Widerquist, Karl What Does Prehistoric Anthropology Have to Do with Modern Political Philosophy? Evidence of Five False Claims (pdf)