23rd January 2018

Articles about the Adam Smith Institute’s paper about Citizen’s Basic Income

The Adam Smith Institute has published a new paper by Otto Lehto titled Basic Income around the world: The unexpected benefits of unconditional cash transfers. To download the paper, click Read More

23rd January 2018

Otto Lehto, Basic Income around the world

Otto Lehto, Basic Income around the world: The unexpected benefits of unconditional cash transfers, Adam Smith Institute, 2018, 49 pp, free to download In 2015, the Adam Smith Institute published Read More

16th January 2018

A Citizen’s Basic Income Day at the London School of Economics, 20th February 2018

Readers will be interested to hear that during the LSE Festival, Tuesday 20th February will be a Citizen’s Basic Income Day. The morning and afternoon will consist of lively mixtures Read More

13th January 2018

The Guardian publishes a critique of the Finnish experiment

An article in The Guardian studies how the Finnish experiment is working out: … The Finnish experiment’s design and objectives mean it should perhaps not really be seen as a Read More

11th January 2018

A Guardian podcast of a debate on Citizen’s Basic Income

The Guardian has published a podcast of a debate on Citizen’s Basic Income (start to listen at 16:00 minutes): Could a universal basic income be a solution to precarious work, Read More

9th January 2018

Robert J. Brent, Advanced Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis

Robert J. Brent, Advanced Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis, Edward Elgar, 2017, xiv + 139 pp, 1 78536 176 0, pbk, £17.95 This book does precisely what an ‘introduction’ to cost-benefit Read More

27th December 2017

A new article on the history of Citizen’s Basic Income in the UK

Peter Sloman’s new article on the history of Citizen’s Basic Income in the UK has been published in the Journal of Social Policy: Universal Basic Income in British Politics, 1918–2018: Read More

27th December 2017

New research simulates labour market effects of tax and benefits reform options

A new working paper from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex reports on research using the EUROMOD microsimulation programme to simulate the labour market effects Read More

20th December 2017

Birnbaum, Ferrarini, Nelson and Palme, The Generational Welfare Contract

Simon Birnbaum, Tommy Ferrarini, Kenneth Nelson and Joakim Palme, The Generational Welfare Contract: Edward Elgar, 2017, vi + 182 pp, 1 78347 102 7, hbk, £70 The agenda for this Read More

20th December 2017

Kate Murray, Fair and Free

Kate Murray (ed), Fair and Free: Labour, liberty and human rights, Fabian Society, 2017, x + 75 pp, pbk, 0 7163 0644 3, £9.95 An interesting issue raised at the Read More