explores how we can test a universal basic income in the UK and beyond. Drawing on research for the RSA, he maps a version of this idea that brings together a heterogeneous field of proposals, and explains that the quality of experimental design impacts on how well the policy is understood and whether it is supported by the public.
Basic income, only a few years ago a fringe idea, is rapidly breaking through into mainstream political discourse. The policy has entered into the popular imagination amidst widespread disenchantment with a dysfunctional status quo, as a new UK-wide survey commissioned […]
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