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.
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“We are not passive. We act, we imagine, we choose—and all of that is economics,” says Francisco Capella. Drawing on…
The Lithuanian Free Market Institute and the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute presents a multidisciplinary study “The Phenomenon of Scarcity: Being,…
“Every day there are willing buyers and willing sellers, engaging in transactions for mutual benefit — and when you aggregate…
At the XIX Gottfried von Haberler Conference in Liechtenstein – themed “Socialism in a New Disguise” – LFMI President Elena…
At the seminar “Economics and the Human Condition: Bridging the Philosophical Gap” held in Vilnius on June 10–11, 2025, one…
In June 2025, Vytautas Magnus University hosted an international academic conference titled “Education in an Era of Evolving Meaning” in…
There are moments when a discipline must pause and ask itself a simple, disarming question: what is it truly about?…
At a time when economics is losing sight of the human person, Lithuanian Free Market Institute seeks to restore its…
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