January 03, 2014
The Positive Political Economy of the Basic Income Guarantee
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Josh McCabe, a PhD candidate in the department of sociology at the University at Albany and an Adam Smith Fellow at the…
Posts filed under basic income
December 16, 2013
Will Private Charity Be Enough?
Matt Zwolinski recently discussed arguments for a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) at BHL and Libertarianism.org. One of those arguments was that a BIG might be required on libertarian grounds because…
December 06, 2013
Adam Tebble on Redistribution in Light of Past Injustice
Matt Zwolinski recently posted a piece probing the question of whether a unconditional basic income might be a good idea from a broadly libertarian or at least classical liberal perspective….
May 31, 2012
Employee and Employer Rights
Workplace relationships are a big part of most people’s lives. Many of us spend more time with our coworkers than our families, and our relationships with our coworkers have a…
April 30, 2012
BHL’s & UBI’s
I support a Universal Basic Income (UBI), and I think that other libertarians ought to as well. Earlier, Jason sketched the difference between ‘hard libertarians’ and BHL, but didn’t give…
April 24, 2012
Comments on Hillel Steiner’s Essay on Rights
Note: the following is a review of Hillel Steiner’s Essay on Rights that was originally published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 2 (June, 1996), pp. 283-302….