Why Do We Run Basic Income Experiments? From Empirical Evidence to Collective Debate

IF 1 Q3 ECONOMICS

Basic Income Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1515/bis-2021-0018

B. Laín, Robert Merrill

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract There are two major possible responses to the question: what (if anything) can justify a basic income experiment? An experiment might be justified either because it gathers positive empirical evidence supporting rolling out a basic income, or because it justifies the moral desirability of such a measure. This paper critically explores both responses, the “empirical” and “ethical claim” in light of the Barcelona B-MINCOME pilot, alongside other similar experiments. We sustained that although the empirical claim is necessary, there seems to be sufficient data to easily predict that all future experiments are to gather positive results too. Consequently, we argue that experiments are particularly well-equipped to foster debates on the work ethics and on the ethical dimension of social policies and welfare regimes in general.

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我们为什么要进行基本收入实验?从经验证据到集体辩论

对于这个问题，有两种可能的回答:什么(如果有的话)可以证明基本收入实验的合理性?一项实验可能是合理的，要么因为它收集了支持推出基本收入的积极经验证据，要么因为它证明了这种措施在道德上的可取性。本文根据巴塞罗那B-MINCOME试点以及其他类似实验，批判性地探讨了这两种反应，即“经验主义”和“道德主张”。我们坚持认为，虽然经验主张是必要的，但似乎有足够的数据可以很容易地预测，所有未来的实验也将收集积极的结果。因此，我们认为，实验特别适合促进关于职业道德以及一般社会政策和福利制度的道德层面的辩论。

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Basic Income Studies ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

18.20%

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期刊介绍： Basic income is a universal income grant available to every citizen without means test or work requirement. Academic discussion of basic income and related policies has been growing in the fields of economics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and public policy over the last few decades — with dozens of journal articles published each year, and basic income constituting the subject of more than 30 books in the last 10 years. In addition, the political discussion of basic income has been expanding through social organizations, NGOs and other advocacy groups. Internationally, recent years have witnessed the endorsement of basic income by grassroots movements as well as government officials in developing countries such as Brazil or South-Africa. As the community of people working on this issue has been expanding all over the world, incorporating grassroots activists, high profile academics — including several Nobel Prize winners in economics — and policymakers, the amount of high quality research on this topic has increased considerably. In the light of such extensive scholarship on this topic, the need to coordinate research efforts through a journal specifically devoted to basic income and cognate policies became pressing. Basic Income Studies (BIS) is the first academic journal to focus specifically on basic income and cognate policies.