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Universal basic income (UBI) is gaining momentum world- wide. Switzerland held a referendum on the introduction of a nationwide UBI (which it rejected) in 2016,1 Finland
1 See Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft: Volksinitiative für ein bedin- gungsloses Grundeinkommen, https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/ dokumentation/abstimmungen/20160605/fur-ein-bedingungsloses- Grundeinkommen.html. 77% of the voters rejected the proposal. Most of them missed the clear indication of the level of the UBI and of clari- fi cations of the fi nancing. The intellectual motors of the UBI movement in Switzerland were Häni and Kovce; see D. H ä n i , P. K o v c e : Was […]
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