Support for a universal basic income: A demand–capacity paradox?

Welfare Without Taxation - Autonomous production revenues for Universal Basic Income

In the face of shifting means of production from manual human labor to labor automation, one solution that stands out is the advancement of a Universal Basic Income, UBI to every citizen from the government with no strings attached. The proposal, however, has encountered sharp criticism from different quarters questioning the morality behind sourcing of funds, largely through taxation, to uphol...

Mani and shapur a universal faith for e universal kingdom

Universal basic income as a preferential social dividend a proposal for the Colombian case

This paper proposes creating a Citizen’s Universal Fund (CUF) (Fondo Universal Ciudadano, FUC), an enterprise having social patrimony, to which each Colombian would be associated through acquiring a share promising to pay her a perpetual income (after holding the share for 20 years), which we shall call the Preferential Social Dividend (PSD), (Dividendo Social Preferencial, DSP). The proposal i...

“ Means testing versus basic income : the ( lack of ) political support of a universal allowance ” Helmuth Cremer , Kerstin Roeder July 2015

This paper studies the political economy of a basic income (BI) versus a means tested welfare scheme. We show in a very simple setting that if society votes on the type of system, its generosity as well as the “severity” of means testing (if any), a BI system could only emerge in the political equilibrium under very strong and empirically implausible conditions. Instead, the political process l...

Basic income – A transcultural perspective