A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens

Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Widerquist, Karl (Author)
Institution som forfatter: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XI, 167 p.
text
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
Udgivelse:1st ed. 2018.
Serier:Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee,
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Online adgang:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03849-6
Format: Electronisk eBog
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Chapter 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
  • Chapter 8. Current Experiments
  • Chapter 9. Why are UBI Trials Happening Now? The Political Process That Brought About UBI Experiments in the 20-Teens
  • Chapter 10. The Vulnerability of Experimental Findings to Misunderstanding, Misuse, Spin, and the Streetlight Effect
  • Chapter 11. Why UBI Experiments Cannot Resolve Much of the Public Disagreement About UBI
  • 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
  • Chapter 18. Why Have an Experiment at all?
  • Chapter 19. Overcoming Spin, Sensationalism Misunderstanding, and the Streetlight Effect.