Matt Wilder , doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto, won first place in the 2016 Progressive Economics Forum (PEF) graduate student essay contest with his paper “ Debating Unconditional Basic Income ”.
A revised version of Wilder’s award-winning paper has recently been published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science . Abstract: Much of the literature on unconditional basic income considers reciprocity to be necessary for its success. From a normative standpoint, receiving without giving is unjust. From a technical standpoint, the absence of mechanisms that promote reciprocation invites free riding which threatens to erode the […]
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