Problems with wage subsidies: Phelps's economic discipline and undisciplined economics (2008)
This paper discusses problems with wage subsidy proposals, specifically focusing on the proposal in Rewarding Work by Edmund Phelps. It shows that the book uses one price theory to argue that the...
Problems with wage subsidies: Phelps's economic discipline and undisciplined economics (2008)
This paper discusses problems with wage subsidy proposals, specifically focusing on the proposal in Rewarding Work by Edmund Phelps. It shows that the book uses one price theory to argue that the...
Property and the power to say no : a freedom-based argument for basic income / (2006)
Widerquist, Karl., University Of Oxford. Dept. Of Politics And International Relations. Thesis., University Of Oxford. Division Of Social Sciences. Thesis., Lady Margaret Hall (University Of Oxford). Thesis (D.Phil., Politics And International Relations)
Supervisor: Dr Stuart White.
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The public choice literature has paid little attention to altruism, and the few works that do deal with it usually focus on the tradeoff between selfish and unselfish preferences, assuming some...
"New Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income"
Renewed interest in a guaranteed income is evident from the number of books that have been published on the topic in the 1990s. This paper discusses and compares seven of those books: Arguing for...
"The Public Commodities Problem,"
The decision about how much to spend on a public program depends on the answers to two questions: (1) a normative and binary question-Should the government pursue the goal of this program? (2) a...
The basic income guarantee and social economics
Michael Lewis, Steven Pressman, Karl Widerquist
This article introduces the Review of Social Economy symposium on the basic income guarantee (BIG). It argues that there are several ways in which the BIG is consistent with social economics. First,...
The public choice literature has paid little attention to altruism, and the few works that do deal with it usually focus on the tradeoff between selfish and unselfish preferences, assuming some...
An Efficiency Argument for the Guaranteed Income
Karl Widerquist, Michael A. Lewis
This paper uses what could be called a multi-school approach to poverty policy, asking the following question: Given the many proposed causes for poverty, and the conflicting theories about how...
Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income
This paper argues that a guaranteed income is not only consistent with the principle of reciprocity but is required for reciprocity. This conclusion follows from a three-part argument. First, if a...
New Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income
Renewed interest in a guaranteed income is evident from the number of books that have been published on the topic in the 1990s. This paper discusses and compares seven of those books: Arguing for...
The Public Commodities Problem
One person's public good is another's public bad and so, perhaps, the public goods problem could be more generally described as the public commodities problem, in which disagreement about the basic...
The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment
basic income, universal welfare, welfare policy, welfare state, welfare reform,
Problems with wage subsidies: Phelps's economic discipline and undisciplined economics
This paper discusses problems with wage subsidy proposals, specifically focusing on the proposal in Rewarding Work by Edmund Phelps. It shows that the book uses one price theory to argue that the...
The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment
basic income, universal welfare, welfare policy, welfare state, welfare reform,
The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment
basic income, universal welfare, welfare policy, welfare state, welfare reform
Problems with wage subsidies: Phelps's economic discipline and undisciplined economics
This paper discusses problems with wage subsidy proposals, specifically focusing on the proposal in Rewarding Work by Edmund Phelps. It shows that the book uses one price theory to argue that the...