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Working Papers

2016

1. Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender
   Staff Reports, Federal Reserve Bank of New York View citations (35)

2000

2. New Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income
   Macroeconomics, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (3)
   Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, Levy Economics Institute (1999) View citations (1)
3. The Public Commodities Problem
   Macroeconomics, University Library of Munich, Germany
   Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, Levy Economics Institute (2000) View citations (1)

1998

4. An Efficiency Argument for the Guaranteed Income
   Macroeconomics, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
   Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, Levy Economics Institute (1997) View citations (7)
5. Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income
   Economics Working Paper Archive, Levy Economics Institute
   Also in Macroeconomics, University Library of Munich, Germany (1998) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income, Politics & Society (1999) View citations (3) (1999)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Functional Finance and the Sustainability of Universal Basic Income
   Basic Income Studies, 2024, 19, (1), 15-29

2023

2. The Cost of Basic Income in the United Kingdom: A Microsimulation Analysis
   International Journal of Microsimulation, 2023, 16, (3), 1-18

2018

3. The Devil’s in the Caveats: A Brief Discussion of the Difficulties of Basic Income Experiments
   CESifo Forum, 2018, 19, (03), 30-35 View citations (1)

2017

4. The Cost of Basic Income: Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations
   Basic Income Studies, 2017, 12, (2), 13 View citations (11)

2015

5. The Piketty Observation against the Institutional Background: How Natural is this Natural Tendency and What Can We Do about it?
   Basic Income Studies, 2015, 10, (1), 83-90

2010

6. How the Sufficiency Minimum Becomes a Social Maximum
   Utilitas, 2010, 22, (4), 474-480 View citations (1)
7. In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
   Review of Political Economy, 2010, 22, (1), 170-174
8. The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism, edited by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
   Eastern Economic Journal, 2010, 36, (2), 277-278

2009

9. A dilemma for libertarianism
   Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2009, 8, (1), 43-72
10. Ken Binmore, Natural Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. xii + 207
    Utilitas, 2009, 21, (4), 529-532

2008

11. Problems with wage subsidies: Phelps's economic discipline and undisciplined economics
    International Journal of Green Economics, 2008, 2, (3), 329-339

2006

12. The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment
    Basic Income Studies, 2006, 1, (2), 5 View citations (4)
13. Who Exploits Who?
    Political Studies, 2006, 54, (3), 444-464 View citations (2)

2005

14. A failure to communicate: what (if anything) can we learn from the negative income tax experiments?
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2005, 34, (1), 49-81 View citations (37)
15. Introduction to the special issue on the basic income guarantee
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2005, 34, (1), 1-2
16. The basic income guarantee and social economics
    Review of Social Economy, 2005, 63, (4), 587-593 View citations (10)

2003

17. Public Choice and Altruism
    Eastern Economic Journal, 2003, 29, (3), 317-337

2001

18. Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income, Part I
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2001, 35, (3), 749-757 View citations (6)
    Also in Journal of Economic Issues, 2001, 35, (4), 1019-1030 (2001) View citations (5)
19. The Political Economy of Inequality
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2001, 35, (4), 1054-1056

1999

20. Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income
    Politics & Society, 1999, 27, (3), 387-402 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income, Economics Working Paper Archive (1998) (1998)

Books

2023

1. The Problem of Property
   Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, Palgrave Macmillan
   See also Chapter The Problem of Property, Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, Palgrave Macmillan (2023) (2023)

2018

2. A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens
   Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (13)

2013

3. Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income
   Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (11)

Edited books

2012

1. Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend
   Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)
2. Exporting the Alaska Model
   Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (7)

Chapters

2023

1. Conclusion: The Greater of Two Goods
   Palgrave Macmillan
2. Introduction
   Palgrave Macmillan
3. Lockean Appropriation Assessed
   Palgrave Macmillan
4. Lockean Property Theory: A Menu of Options for the Justification of Unilateral Appropriation
   Palgrave Macmillan
5. Problems with Pilot Projects
   Palgrave Macmillan
6. Right-Libertarian Appropriation Assessed
   Palgrave Macmillan
7. The Approximation of a Property-Rights Accord
   Palgrave Macmillan
8. The Negative Income Tax Experiments of the 1970s
   Palgrave Macmillan
   Also in Palgrave Macmillan (2019) View citations (2)
9. The Problem of Property
   Palgrave Macmillan
   See also Book The Problem of Property, Palgrave Macmillan (2023) (2023)

2019

10. Three Waves of Basic Income Support
    Palgrave Macmillan

2018

11. Available Testing Techniques
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)
12. BIG Experiments of the 1970s and the Public Reaction to Them
    Palgrave Macmillan
13. Claims That Can Be Tested but Only Partially, Indirectly, or Inconclusively
    Palgrave Macmillan
14. Claims That Can’t Be Tested with Available Techniques
    Palgrave Macmillan
15. Claims That Don’t Need a Test
    Palgrave Macmillan
16. Current, Planned, and Proposed Experiments, 2014–Present
    Palgrave Macmillan
17. From the Dream Test to Good Tests Within Feasible Budgets
    Palgrave Macmillan
18. Identifying Important Empirical Claims in the UBI Debate
    Palgrave Macmillan
19. Introduction
    Palgrave Macmillan
20. New Experimental Findings 2008–2013
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)
21. Overcoming Spin, Sensationalism, Misunderstanding, and the Streetlight Effect
    Palgrave Macmillan
22. Testing Difficulties
    Palgrave Macmillan
23. The Bottom Line
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (401)
24. The Political Economy of the Decision to Have a UBI Experiment
    Palgrave Macmillan
25. The Practical Impossibility of Testing UBI
    Palgrave Macmillan
26. The Vulnerability of Experimental Findings to Misunderstanding, Misuse, Spin, and the Streetlight Effect
    Palgrave Macmillan
27. Universal Basic Income and Its More Testable Sibling, the Negative Income Tax
    Palgrave Macmillan
28. Why Have an Experiment at All?
    Palgrave Macmillan
29. Why UBI Experiments Cannot Resolve Much of the Public Disagreement About UBI
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)

2013

30. Conclusion
    Palgrave Macmillan
31. Forty Acres and a Mule? Implications of the Duty to Respect Personal Independence
    Palgrave Macmillan
32. If You’re an Egalitarian, Why Do You Want to Be the Boss of the Poor? Independence and Liberal-Egalitarian Theories of Justice
    Palgrave Macmillan
33. Introduction
    Palgrave Macmillan
34. On Duty
    Palgrave Macmillan
35. Prologue: The Big Casino
    Palgrave Macmillan
36. Status Freedom as Effective Control Self-Ownership
    Palgrave Macmillan
37. The Importance of Independence I: Framing the Issue
    Palgrave Macmillan
38. The Importance of Independence II: Freedom and Integrity
    Palgrave Macmillan
39. The Importance of Independence III: Market Vulnerability
    Palgrave Macmillan
40. What Good Is a Theory of Freedom That Allows Forced Labor? Independence and Modern Theories of Freedom
    Palgrave Macmillan

2012

41. A Permanent Endowment for the United States
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)
42. Citizens’ Capital Accounts: A Proposal
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (3)
43. Conclusion: Lessons from the Alaska Model
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)
44. Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska’s Permanent Fund and Dividend
    Palgrave Macmillan
45. Exporting an Idea
    Palgrave Macmillan
46. Exporting the Alaska Model to Alaska: How Big Could the Permanent Fund Be if the State Really Tried? And Can a Larger Fund Insulate an Oil Exporter from the End of the Boom?
    Palgrave Macmillan
47. Introduction: Success in Alaska
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (6)
48. Reply to Comments
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (4)
49. The Alaska Model as a Menu of Options
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)
50. Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation?
    Palgrave Macmillan

Editor

1. Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
   Palgrave Macmillan