Karl Widerquist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karl Widerquist is an American political philosopher and economist at Georgetown University in their campus in Qatar. He is best known as an advocate of basic income, but is also an interdisciplinary academic writer who has published in journals in fields as diverse as economics, politics, philosophy, and anthropology. He is a consistent critic of propertarianism, right-libertarianism, social contract theory, and the belief that modern societies fulfill the Lockean proviso.
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- A failure to communicate: what (if anything) can we learn from the negative income tax experiments? (2005) (148)
- Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income (2013) (58)
- Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No (2013) (52)
- A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens (2018) (46)
- Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model (2012) (45)
- Book Review ∙ The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future (2019) (44)
- The Cost of Basic Income: Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations (2017) (35)
- Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income (1998) (33)
- Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend (2012) (31)
- How the Sufficiency Minimum Becomes a Social Maximum (2010) (27)
- Lockean Theories of Property: Justifications for Unilateral Appropriation (2010) (27)
- The Ethics And Economics Of The Basic Income Guarantee (2005) (27)
- Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy (2016) (26)
- An Efficiency Argument for the Guaranteed Income (1997) (23)
- Exporting the Alaska model : adapting the permanent fund dividend for reform around the world (2012) (21)
- An efficiency argument for the Basic Income Guarantee (2006) (16)
- The Physical Basis of Voluntary Trade (2010) (15)
- Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income, Part II (2001) (12)
- Who Exploits who? 1 (2006) (12)
- Economics for Social Workers (2002) (11)
- The United States: The Basic Income Guarantee — Past Experience, Current Proposals (2012) (11)
- The basic income guarantee and social economics (2005) (11)
- The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment (2006) (10)
- Property and the power to say no : a freedom-based argument for basic income (2006) (10)
- Three Waves of Basic Income Support (2019) (10)
- Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income, Part I (2001) (8)
- Does She Exploit or Doesn't She? (2005) (8)
- Public Choice and Altruism (2003) (7)
- The Basic Income Guarantee and the goals of equality, efficiency, and environmentalism (2008) (7)
- Economics for Social Workers: The Application of Economic Theory to Social Policy and the Human Services (2002) (7)
- What Does Prehistoric Anthropology have to do with Modern Political Philosophy? Evidence of Five False Claims (2010) (7)
- Exporting the Alaska Model (2012) (6)
- A dilemma for libertarianism (2009) (6)
- Introduction: Success in Alaska (2012) (6)
- Myths about the State of Nature and the Reality of Stateless Societies (2015) (6)
- Why we demand an unconditional basic income: the ECSO freedom case (2011) (5)
- The Basic Income Guarantee in the United States: Past Experience, Current Proposals (2012) (5)
- New Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income (1999) (4)
- The Basic Income Grant as Social Safety Net for Namibia: Experience and lessons from around the world (2013) (4)
- In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (2010) (4)
- The Piketty Observation against the Institutional Background: How Natural is this Natural Tendency and What Can We Do about it? (2015) (3)
- Arguing about justice (2013) (3)
- The Evolution of Equality: Rethinking Variability and Egalitarianism Among Modern Forager Societies (2015) (3)
- Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation (2012) (2)
- An Introduction to the Basic Income Guarantee (2017) (2)
- A Permanent Endowment for the United States (2012) (2)
- Basic Income's Third Wave (2017) (2)
- Citizens’ Capital Accounts: A Proposal (2012) (1)
- The people’s endowment (2014) (1)
- The Devil’s in the Caveats: A Brief Discussion of the Difficulties of Basic Income Experiments (2018) (1)
- �Why Private Property?� (2019) (1)
- The Cost of Basic Income in the United Kingdom: A Microsimulation Analysis (2020) (1)
- The Prehistory of Private Property (2021) (1)
- Getting It Right: An Assessment of Several Methods for Calculating Regional School Costs across New York State. (2001) (1)
- Castles in the Sand: Why School Overcrowding Remains a Problems in NYC. (2002) (1)
- Conclusion: Lessons from the Alaska Model (2012) (1)
- Deceptively Simple: the Uselessness of Gross Cost in the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Universal Basic Income (2019) (1)
- An introduction to citizens capital accounts (2008) (1)
- Review of Work Behavior of the World's Poor: Theory Evidence and Policy, Mohammed Sharif (2004) (1)
- Problems with wage subsidies: Phelps's economic discipline and undisciplined economics (2008) (1)
- Why UBI Experiments Cannot Resolve Much of the Public Disagreement About UBI (2018) (1)
- The Negative Income Tax Experiments of the 1970s (2019) (1)
- Status Freedom as Effective Control Self-Ownership (2013) (1)
- The Regressive Effect of STAR. (2001) (1)
- Economics for Social Workers, First Edition (2002) (1)
- Freedom as the Power to Say No: Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income (2013) (1)
- Exporting the Alaska Model to Alaska: How Big Could the Permanent Fund Be if the State Really Tried? And Can a Larger Fund Insulate an Oil-Exporter from the End of the Boom? (2012) (1)
- A Day-Long Discussion of “the Alaska Model” at the University of Alaska-Anchorage (2011) (0)
- Chapter 4: Evidence Provided by Propertarians to Support the Appropriation Hypothesis (2019) (0)
- Chapter 2: Status Freedom As Effective Control Self-Ownership (2012) (0)
- Chapter 9: On Duty (2012) (0)
- Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska’s Permanent Fund and Dividend (2012) (0)
- The Big Casino (2014) (0)
- Reply to Comments (1991) (0)
- Lessons of the Alaska Dividend (2010) (0)
- The Economic Possibilities of Our Grandparents, a retrospective on John Maynard Keynes's Economic Possibilities of Our Grandchildren (2006) (0)
- An introduction to Citizens Capital Accounts in Social Aspects of Green Economics (Proceedings of the Green Economics Institute Conference - Green Economics 9 February 2008) (2008) (0)
- Appendix to Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy (2017) (0)
- Current, Planned, and Proposed Experiments, 2014–Present (2018) (0)
- Chapter X: Bibliography (2012) (0)
- Chapters 1-2 (drafts) of Prehistoric myths in modern political philosophy: Chapter 1-2 (2015) (0)
- Universal Basic Income Roundtable (2019) (0)
- Available Testing Techniques (2018) (0)
- Ken Binmore, Natural Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. xii + 207. (2009) (0)
- Chapter 3 (draft) The Hobbesian Hypothesis: How a colonial prejudice became an essential premise in the most popular justification of government (2015) (0)
- Book Review: The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism (2010) (0)
- Working Paper No . 245 (1999) (0)
- Business as Usual: How Albany's "Open Secret" Holds Back Real Progress in School Funding Equality (2002) (0)
- The Practical Impossibility of Testing UBI (2018) (0)
- Working Paper No. 299 (2000) (0)
- Claims That Can Be Tested but Only Partially, Indirectly, or Inconclusively (2018) (0)
- When it becomes necessary to do a thing the whole heart and soul should go into the measure. (2000) (0)
- Review of the Political Economy of Inequality, Eds. Acherman, Goodwin, Dougherty, and Gallagher (2001) (0)
- From the Dream Test to Good Tests Within Feasible Budgets (2018) (0)
- Identifying Important Empirical Claims in the UBI Debate (2018) (0)
- Chapter 6: The Hobbesian Hypothesis in Nineteenth Century Political Theory (2016) (0)
- Chapter 4: The Importance of Independence I: Framing the Issue (2012) (0)
- Libertarianism: The International Encyclopedia of Public Policy: Governance in a Global Age, vol. 3 (2015) (0)
- The Importance of Independence III: Market Vulnerability (2013) (0)
- The Vulnerability of Experimental Findings to Misunderstanding, Misuse, Spin, and the Streetlight Effect (2018) (0)
- Two Memoirs Tell the History of the Alaska Dividend (2011) (0)
- Why Have an Experiment at All (2018) (0)
- Chapter 6: The Importance of Independence III: Market Vulnerability (2012) (0)
- [Early Draft] Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research (2014) (0)
- A BIG Idea: A Minimum Income Guarantee (2009) (0)
- The Public Commodities Problem (2000) (0)
- Chapter x10: Conclusion (2012) (0)
- Chpater 11: Implications (2016) (0)
- What Good Is a Theory of Freedom That Allows Forced Labor? Independence and Modern Theories of Freedom (2013) (0)
- Checkerboard II: An Analysis of Tax Effort, Equalization and Extraordinary Needs Aids. (2001) (0)
- Anthropology Notes: 492 pages in DOCX format (2019) (0)
- Keeping the Global Recession in Perspective (2009) (0)
- Chapter 0: Prologue (2012) (0)
- I Have a Basic Income (2010) (0)
- Chapter 2: Is the Natural Rights Justification of Private Property a Purely Normative Argument, or Does it Require Empirical Claims? And if it Does, What Are Those Claims? (2018) (0)
- Academic Intervention Services (2001) (0)
- The State of Nature, Prehistory, and Mythmaking (2021) (0)
- Review of The Civic Minimum, Stuart White (2004) (0)
- Report to the Black, Puerto Rican And Hispanic Legislative Caucus. (2004) (0)
- Property and the power to say no (2006) (0)
- Prologue: The Big Casino (2013) (0)
- The Labour Market Findings of the Negative Income Tax Experiments and Their Effects on Policy and Public Opinion (2004) (0)
- Review of Libertarianism without Inequality, Michael Otsuka (2005) (0)
- Chapter 2: Modern political philosophy and prehistoric anthropology: some preliminary issues (2015) (0)
- “Lessons from the Alaska Model: How the Permanent Fund Dividend provides a Model for Reform Worldwide” (2011) (0)
- If You’re an Egalitarian, Why Do You Want to Be the Boss of the Poor? Independence and Liberal-Egalitarian Theories of Justice (2013) (0)
- New Experimental Findings 2008–2013 (2018) (0)
- Hierarchy’s Apologists, Part One: 5,000 years of clever and contradictory arguments that inequality is natural and inevitable (2020) (0)
- Claims That Don’t Need a Test (2018) (0)
- The Alaska Model as a Menu of Options (2012) (0)
- Introduction to the special issue on the basic income guarantee (2005) (0)
- Citizensâ Capital Accounts (2012) (0)
- Review of The Ethics of Stakeholding, Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere, and Stuart White (2007) (0)
- Chapter 7: The Hobbesian hypothesis in twentieth and twenty-first century political theory (2016) (0)
- Universal Basic Income and Its More Testable Sibling, the Negative Income Tax (2018) (0)
- Chapter 5: The Origin and Development of Property Rights: An Empirical Investigation with Implications for the Modern Theory of Private Property (2019) (0)
- The Political Economy of the Decision to Have a UBI Experiment (2018) (0)
- Review of Economics as Religion: from Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond, Robert H. Nelson (2004) (0)
- The Problem of Property: Taking the Freedom of Nonowners Seriously (2023) (0)
- z1 The Negative-Freedom Argument for the Market Economy (2020) (0)
- The Pursuit of Accord: Toward a Theory of Justice with a Second-Best Approach to the Insider-Outsider Problem (2019) (0)
- Review of 'The failed welfare revolution: America's struggle over guaranteed income policy' by Brian Steensland (2008) (0)
- The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism, edited by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy (2010) (0)
- Exporting the Alaska Model to Alaska (2012) (0)
- Chapter 9: Nasty & brutish? Is the state of nature inherently a perilous environment devoid of security? (2016) (0)
- Coloring book: 11 pages (2013) (0)
- Reply to Comments [Citizens Capital Accounts] (2012) (0)
- Review of "The Failed Welfare Revolution: America’s Struggle over the Guaranteed Income Policy" (2017) (0)
- Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaskaâs Permanent Fund and Dividend (2012) (0)
- The Political Economy of Inequality (2001) (0)
- Chapter 3: Forty Acres and a Mule? Implications of the Duty to Respect Person Independence (2012) (0)
- Claims That Can’t Be Tested with Available Techniques (2018) (0)
- Chapter 10: Are you better off now that you were 12,000 years ago? An empirical assessment of the Lockean proviso (draft version) (2016) (0)
- The Importance of Independence III (2013) (0)
- Viewpoint: What does the stone age have to do with us? (2008) (0)
- The Economic Lesson of 1938 (2009) (0)
- z2 The Negative Freedom-Argument for the Hunter-Gatherer Band Economy (2020) (0)
- Review of Natural Justice, Ken Binmore (2009) (0)
- The Importance of Independence II: Freedom and Integrity (2013) (0)
- BIG Experiments of the 1970s and the Public Reaction to Them (2018) (0)
- Anthropology Notes: 492 pages (2019) (0)
- The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee: Does She Exploit or Doesn't She? (2015) (0)
- Building Aid Short Changes the Big Cities (2000) (0)
- Review of Real Libertarianism Assessed, Andrew Reeve and Andrew Williams (eds.) (2004) (0)
- Rereading Keynes: Economic Possibilities of Our Grandparents (2011) (0)
- Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Basic Income in Practice (2012) (0)
- Hierarchy’s Antagonists: How humans maintained political, social, and economic equality for most of prehistory (2020) (0)
- Overcoming Spin, Sensationalism, Misunderstanding, and the Streetlight Effect (2018) (0)
- Chapter 5: The Importance of Independence II: Freedom an Integrity (2012) (0)
- Is Basic Income Still Worth Talking About (2013) (0)
- Forty Acres and a Mule? Implications of the Duty to Respect Personal Independence (2013) (0)
- Chapter 3: Evidence provided by propertarians to support the empirical claims in their argument that there something natural about private property (2018) (0)
- Exporting an Idea (2012) (0)
- Building Aid Shortchanges the Big Cities: The Distribution of Building Aid to New York State School Districts, 1992-1999. (2001) (0)
- Chapter 4 (draft): John Locke and the Hobbesian hypothesis: How a very similar colonial prejudice found its way into the natural rights justification of private property (2015) (0)
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