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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Widerquist, Karl (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	XI, 167 p. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Series:	Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee,
Subjects:	Social choice. Welfare economics. Finance, Public. Experimental economics. Labor economics. Social Choice and Welfare. Public Economics. Experimental Economics. Labor Economics.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03849-6
Format:	Electronic eBook

Table of Contents:

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.

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