A critical analysis of basic income experiments for researchers, policymakers, and citizens. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Karl Widerquist.
• Authors: Widerquist, Karl
• Contents: Part one: UBI, available tests, testing problems, and past experimentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Universal Basic Income and its more testable sibling, the Negative Income Tax Chapter 3: Available testing techniques Chapter 4: Testing difficulties Chapter 5: The practical impossibility of testing UBI Chapter 6: BIG experiments of the 1970s and the public reaction to them Chapter 7: New experimental findings 2009-2013 Part Two: The place of experiments in the political economy of UBI Chapter 8: Why UBI experiments cannot resolve much of the public disagreement about UBI Chapter 9: The political economy of the decision to have a UBI experiment Chapter 10: The chain of misunderstanding between experimenters and their nonspecialist audience Chapter 11: Overcoming spin, sensationalism misunderstanding, and the streetlight effect Part Three: From the debate to the test Chapter 12: The bottom line Chapter 13: Identifying important empirical claims in the UBI debate Chapter 14: Claims that don't need a test Chapter 15: Claims that can't be tested with available techniques Chapter 16: Claims that can be tested but only partially, indirectly, or inconclusively Chapter 17: From the dream test to good tests within feasible budgets.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 362.582; Basic income
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030038496
• Related ISBNs: 9783030038489
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