FINLAND: Finland shares unconditional money, but the public view remains polarised

FINLAND: Finland shares unconditional money, but the public view remains polarised

Ville-Veikko Pulkka

Although an experiment on basic income is being performed in Finland at the moment (being expected to end by January 2019), this does not say much about what Finns think about it, or about basic income in general. According to recent research developed by Ville-Veikko Pulkka , a doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, not only does survey methodology deeply affect people’s responses, but current beliefs and views of society by Finnish citizens are also such that “there is no need for a paradigm shift”.

Ville-Veikko and his colleague Professor Heikki Hiilamo ran another survey in late 2017, […]

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