A critical analysis of basic income experiments for researchers, policymakers, and citizens
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A critical analysis of basic income experiments for researchers, policymakers, and citizens
(Exploring the basic income guarantee)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-155) and index
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Description
At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Kenya. Several more countries are considering conducting experiments. Yet, there seems to be more interest simply in having UBI experiments than in exactly what we want to learn from them. Although experiments can produce a lot of relevant data about UBI, they are crucially limited in their ability to enlighten our understanding of the big questions that bear on the discussion of whether to implement UBI as a national or regional policy. And, past experience shows that results of UBI experiments are particularly vulnerable misunderstanding, sensationalism, and spin. This book examines the difficulties of conducting a UBI experiment and reporting the results in ways that successfully improve public understanding of the probable effects of a national UBI. The book makes recommendations how researchers, reporters, citizens, and policymakers can avoid these problems and get the most out of UBI experiments.
Table of 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
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