Charlie Young, “The Conversation About Basic Income is a Mess. Here’s How to Make Sense of It.”

Charlie Young, “The Conversation About Basic Income is a Mess. Here’s How to Make Sense of It.”

Charlie Young, an economics writer who has worked at the UK think tank New Economics Foundation , has contributed an article on basic income to the online journal Evonomics. In the piece, he proposes a categorization system to help make sense of some of the main sources of variations between basic income schemes.

As Young points out, “universal basic income” is not a single proposal. Instead, the label encompasses a broad set of proposals that are not mutually compatible in practice, even though they are related in a more abstract conceptual or philosophical sense. For this reason, it does not […]

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