Not many people noticed — perhaps because it appeared in a sociology journal instead of the economics literature — but there has been another fresh scholarly spelunking in the data ruins left behind by Mincome, Manitoba’s ambitious 1970s experiment with a universal guaranteed basic income. Mincome is a Canadian event that was forgotten for decades, but it suddenly became retro-mesmerizing to the whole world a few years ago when the idea of a basic income returned to fashionability. It is the most extensive trial of a basic income that was ever performed — yet it turned out to be […]
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