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
167	February 2007	Bambrick, Laura	A BIG Response to Wollstonecraft’s Dilemma
135	September 2005	Bergh, Andreas	Basic Income – With or Without Bismarckian Social Insurance?
10	February-02	Bergmann. Barbara R.	A Swedish-Style Welfare State Or Basic Income: Which Should Have Priority?
71	January-04	Bezruchka, Stephen	BIG Medicine for Achieving Population Health in the U.S.
124	May-05	Birnbaum, Simon	Real Libertarianism, Structural Injustice and the Democratic Ideal
3	December-00	Block, Fred	Basic Income and the Shadow of Speedhamland
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
107	February-05	Bouquin, Stephen	The local exchange system
20	February-02	Bouquin, Stephen & Catherine Levy	Social minima a part of recommodification of labour? Critical assessment concerning the tendencies towards basic income
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?
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
136	September 2005	Bugra, Ayse and Caglar Keyder	Arguing for Basic Income in Turkey: Main Challenges
114	March-05	Busilacchi, Gianluca	Two Problems, One Solution: The Earth Basic Income
148	February 2006	Butler, Sam	The Poverty of Politics
123	May-05	Calderon Cuevas, Eduardo and Oscar Valiente Gonzalez	Basic Income as a Policy to Fight Child Labour
31	March-02	Caputo, Richard K.	FAP Flops: Lessons Learned from the Failure to Pass the Family Assistance Plan in 1970 and 1972?
162	February 2007	Caputo, Richard K.	The Death Knoll of BIG or BIG by Stealth: A Preliminary Assessment of UBIG Political Viability around the Globe
29	March-02	Clark, Charles M. A.	Basic Income: Promoting Social Justice in a 21st Century Economy
80	February-04	Clark, Charles M. A.	Ending Poverty in America: The First Step
4	March-01	Clark, Charles M.A.	Changing Labour Markets: Towards Real Flexibility
117	April-05	Clark, Robert F.	The Earth as a Common Trust: Implications for a Minimum Income Guarantee
138	October 2005	Clark, Robert F.	Assaulting Global Poverty: Shortfalls and Proposed Remedy
49	January-03	Clark, Stephen	The Basic Income as a Foundation of a Sound Currency and a Free and Open Market
184	February 2008	Clark, Stephen	The Little Red Hen Thinks Again
32	March-02	Clark, Stephen C.	Funding a Basic Income Guarantee Considering Size, Political Viability, and Pipeline
142	February 2006	Clark, Stephen C.	A Declaration of Independences
161	January 2007	Clark, Stephen C.	The Juarez Plan
99	January-05	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
160	January 2007	Cook, Richard C.	The Basic Income Guarantee and Monetary Reform: A Tale of Two Ideas
39	November-02	Cruz Basso, Leonardo Fernando	Meritorious currency: a currency against famine
126	May-05	Cruz, Maria Núbia Alves Maíra C. P. Colares, Michelle dos Santos Diniz, Murillo Marschner A. de Brito, Ada Ávila Assunção	When Financial Benefits Guarantee School Attendance Without Children and Adolescents Stopping Work: the bolsa escola case of the Municipal Government of Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
7	January-02	Cunliffe, John and Guido Erreygers	Inheritance and Equal Shares: Early American Views
128	July 2005	da Silva e Silva, Maria Ozanira	From a Minimum Income to a Citizenship Income: The Brazilian Experiences
62	February-03	Dahms, Harry F.	Breaking the Glass Cage: How Basic Income is a Quantitatively Different Social Policy Paradigm
100	February-05	Daly, Lew	Whatever Happened to Unearned Income?
122	May-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 Elected Governments
157	November 2006	De Wispelaere, Jurgen and Lindsay Stirton	The Public Administration Case Against Participation Income
105	February-05	Dietsch, Peter	Institutions as Motivational Bootstrapping
83	April-04	Dyan, Paula	How It Feels to Be Homeless
137	September 2005	Elgarte, Julieta Magdalena	Non-Domination, Real Freedom, and Basic Income
67	January-04	Farina, Pete	The Case Against Income Inequality: Unequal Income Is Unequal Citizenship
11	February-02	Farris, Buford	Was it only a Dream: Guaranteed Income through the eyes of a Sixties Poverty Warrior in Texas
44	January-03	Farris, Buford	A Real War on Poverty: Guaranteed Income Plus
102	February-05	Farris, Buford	The Compassionate Face of Religion: A Grounding for a Guaranteed Income
163	February 2007	Farris, Buford	Happy Workers. Welfare Queens and Surfers: Images in the Debate Around a Guaranteed Income
185	February 2008	Farris, Buford	Compassionate Liberalism as a Frame for a Renewed War on Poverty
33	March-02	Frankman, Myron	Funding a Planet-Wide Citizen's Income: Trial Calculations
95	September-04	Frankman, Myron J.	Ample Room at the Top: Financing a Planet-Wide Basic Income
90	August-04	Füllsack, Manfred	BI as a “Medium”? An “un-ethical” approach to the BI-debate
150	February 2006	Füllsack, Manfred	BI – a “historical necessity”? Sketch for a “functional” approach to the BI-debate
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
14	February-02	Garfinkel, Irwin, Chien-Chung Huang, Wendy Naidich,	Effects Of Tax Rebates on Poverty and Income Distribution
115	March-05	George, Robley	Socioeconomic Democracy: A Democratic Basic Income Guarantee
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
37	July-02	Handler, Joel	Social Citizenship and Workfare in the U.S. and Western Europe: From Status to Contract
51	January-03	Handler, Joel	Myth and Ceremony in Workfare: Rights, Contracts, and Client Satisfaction
129	July 2005	Handler, Joel F.	The False Promise of Workfare: Another Reason for a Basic Income Guarantee
61	February-03	Harman, Eva	Social Grants and their Social Circulations
1	May-00	Harris, Robert	The Guaranteed Income Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
82	March-04	Hartzok, Alanna	Citizen Dividends and Oil Resource Rents
181	February 2008	Harvey, Phil	Laying out th