universal guaranteed income

September 17, 2018|Basic Income, free-rider problem, income effect, Philippe Van Parijs, price effect, universal guaranteed income, Yannick Vanderborght

A Universal Basic Income Stipend for Americans: Is It Time?

by Michael C. Munger|

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If creative destruction is as productive as proponents claim, economic “winners” should be able to compensate the “losers” and still come out ahead.

July 17, 2018|bourgeois virtues, Progressivism, Robert Reich, Rousseau, universal guaranteed income, work

A Guaranteed Income Would Undermine the Social Virtues of Work

by John O. McGinnis|

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Proponents of a universal basic income forget that the bourgeois virtues that sustain our society flow from embracing the value of work.

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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