Public interest in UBI is rising across Europe and beyond, driven by demands for guaranteed security and framed as a dignity-preserving response to globalization and technological change. While UBI draws support and critique across the political spectrum, we argue it poses serious risks to human liberty, dignity, and flourishing—and that economic objections alone won’t shift policy or public imagination toward agency-based alternatives.
Our project will build a multidisciplinary research repository and a clearer narrative contrasting agency-based and UBI-based solutions, shared through publications, seminars, podcasts, video explainers, and conference presentations to spark interdisciplinary dialogue.
Watch here
Based on Naglis Kardelis essay “The Dangers of Social Experimentation with Reality”. [bs_button size=”sm” type=”success” value=”See all explainers on…
“The Footrace of Life” is one of the animated essay explainers based on an essay by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, titled…
“When Karl Marx died, twelve people came to his funeral. Not even the police were interested,” says economist and historian…
The discussion on Universal Basic Income (UBI) explored its impact on freedom, responsibility, and what we might lose in the…
“We are not passive. We act, we imagine, we choose—and all of that is economics,” says Francisco Capella. Drawing on…
“Every day there are willing buyers and willing sellers, engaging in transactions for mutual benefit — and when you aggregate…
Finland, Ontario, Kenya – Universal Basic Income experiments are popping up around the world. It is often claimed that they…
Today universal basic income (UBI) is supported not only by the political left but by some libertarians too. They think…
Thank you for subscribing!
