Basic Income Experiments
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By pursuing a bottom-up strategy, where the interviews conducted take a pivotal role in the collection and analysis phase of the book, this book gathers key questions relating to policy experiments. Some questions reflected upon include the general idea of why one should engage and implement a basic income experiment, and the paradox consisting in the fact that most basic income experiments fall short of being closely considered "pure" basic income schemes. In facing the question and the paradox head-on,the book assesses questions of experimental design, the political and social context surrounding the policy, and the main results and what can they tell us about basic income.
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Roberto Merrill is an assistant professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Minho, where he does research at the Centre for Ethics, Politics & Society. He has published and edited several books, the most recent one in 2019 on basic income (in Portuguese). He co-edited with Daniel Weinstock a book on Political Neutrality: a Re-evaluation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Catarina Neves
holds an MSc in Management with a minor in social enterprise from Nova School of Business and Economics. She is currently working in her PhD thesis on the philosophical justification of Unconditional Basic Income, and in what way can the theoretical concepts be found in empirical experiments of UBI.
Bru Laín researched at the Karl Polanyi Institute for Political Economy (Concordia University), the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (University of Brighton), and the Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale (UC Louvain), and works between social policies and political philosophy.
Content
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1. What we have learned from the interviews.- Chapter 2. The goal, context, and methods behind our case studies.- Chapter 3. What do our case studies tell us?.- Part 2. New questions the interviews have raised.- Chapter 4. The decision to implement UBI experiments.- Chapter 5. How results are interpreted.- Chapter 6. From experiment to policy implementation?.- Part 3. How to answer the new questions about basic income experiments, pilots and policies?.- Chapter 7 How the findings from out interviews help advance the Basic Income debate and advocacy.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: why should we conduct basic income experiments, pilots, or policies?.