Forget Welfare: Give People Cash
Most students who fail my classes are too busy roaming the halls or watching soccer videos to finish their work. But some fail because they are working full time, to…
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Universal Basic Income
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Andrew Yang and Zoltan Istvan Subvert the Political Binary
The 2020 race for president, so far, has been almost entirely predictable. Joe Biden continues to lead the Democrats in many polls, thanks to his name recognition (thanks to Obama)…
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In Defence Of Change
We are currently living through a phase transition in the West: economically, demographically, technologically, culturally and environmentally, inter alia. Economically, millions of traditional jobs have been wiped out by new…
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Universal Basic Income Is Not Communism
The concept of universal basic income, or UBI, has been discussed by economists for quite some time, yet many people have either not heard of it, or have heard of…
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Universal Basic Income: Some Negative Findings from the Finnish Experiment
A few days ago, the preliminary report on The Basic Income Experiment 2017–2018 in Finland was published. The report is freely available online and, given its brevity, well worth a…
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A Conservative Case for Universal Basic Income
It hardly came as a surprise when the National Review, a leading American conservative publication, rushed to assail the idea of universal basic income (UBI for short) with its usual…
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