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Universal Basic Income

Economics

Would Guaranteed Income Help Families?

August 6, 2025 | Peter Jacobsen
Aerial view of a public square with a large sign on the ground saying "What would you do if your income were taken care of?"
Economics

A Second Working Paper Shows That People Who Receive a Guaranteed Income Tend to Work Less

December 29, 2024 | Peter Jacobsen
Economics

The Largest Study Ever on UBI Was Just Conducted—The Results Are Disappointing for Advocates

October 14, 2024 | Peter Jacobsen
Politics

Universal Basic Income Fails to Get to the Root of Urban Poverty

December 29, 2020 | Charles Blain
Economics

What Weimar Germany Teaches Us about Universal Basic Income

May 19, 2020 | Zilvinas Silenas
Economics

Should We Pay Everyone $2K Per Month During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

May 5, 2020 | Zilvinas Silenas
Economics

Universal Basic Income Makes Welfare More Efficient, Which Is Bad, Dummy

April 27, 2020 | Gavin Wax
Economics

Selling the Republican Soul for a UBI

April 17, 2020 | Chris Baecker
Economics

The Real—and Flawed—Reason Some Classical Liberals Embrace Universal Basic Income

June 13, 2019 | Bryan Caplan
Politics

Why My Generation—Gen Z—Has the Most to Lose from Andrew Yang’s “Freedom Dividend”

May 22, 2019 | Thomas Ullman
Economics

Universal Basic Income Is a Pandora’s Box

May 5, 2019 | Paul Boyce
Economics

Why the Freedom Dividend Won’t Work, as Explained by Andrew Yang Himself

May 2, 2019 | Bill Wirtz
Economics

Forget Guaranteed Income—Governments Need to Stop Prohibiting Income

March 21, 2019 | Lee Friday
Economics

No, Robots Won’t Make Us All Unemployed

March 18, 2019 | Austin Pace
Economics

Andrew Yang’s Math Doesn’t Add Up on Universal Basic Income

March 8, 2019 | Jacob Dowell
Economics

The Real Cost of Universal Basic Income

February 22, 2019 | Gonzalo Schwarz
Economics

Why Subsidizing Idleness Is a Losing Strategy for Everyone

February 21, 2019 | Daniel J. Mitchell
Economics

AOC’s Green New Deal Is a U.S. Version of Mao’s Disastrous Great Leap Forward

February 12, 2019 | William L. Anderson
Economics

Freedom Is Future-Facing

February 8, 2019 | Doug McCullough
Economics

Universal Basic Income Is a (Costly) Socialist Pipe Dream

January 3, 2019 | David Unsworth
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