Leading Indicators: A step closer to Universal Basic Income?

Leading Indicators: A step closer to Universal Basic Income?

Policies that would have seemed unthinkable barely six months ago are now widely considered part of the mainstream. In the eyes of many, they constitute a sensible and measured response to an unprecedented set of macro conditions. Whether this ultimately proves to be a temporary aberration from the norm remains to be seen. As mentioned in previous columns , it does have the potential to be something rather more substantial: part of a wider rewriting of the economics rulebook.

This challenge to economic orthodoxy is, let us remember, something that predates the Covid-19 pandemic. Populist governments in many parts of […]

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