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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Žmogaus institutas hosts the podcast “The Path of Wisdom in Business” (“Išminties kelias versle”), a series dedicated to people in…
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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…
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