Money for doing nothing: the economics of Utopia

Money for doing nothing: the economics of Utopia

I want citizenship in that blessed land.

Who doesn’t? So I guess Finland isn’t your idea of Utopia. What’s Finland got to do with it?

Last week, newspapers around the world headlined the news that the Finnish government would wind down, by this year-end, an experiment, started in January 2017, under which it gave monthly stipends of €560 each to a random sample of 2,000 unemployed citizens between ages 25 and 58. You mean a dole? No. Unemployed people in Finland already qualify for generous benefits. This experiment was intended to test a social welfare policy […]

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