“It’s the economy, stupid” was the slogan that got US president Bill Clinton elected in 1992 in a race against George Bush Snr. When I started working on the basic income grant (BIG) after the start of the pandemic three years ago, it soon became clear to me that it was primarily about the economy, stupid — not redistribution or reducing inequality, though it would help to achieve these two objectives.
If the BIG is about recovery, then we must let it rip and provide a first stimulus to an economy whose GDP per capita has not grown for 15 […]
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