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Basic Income Experiments

A Critical Examination of Their Goals, Contexts, and Methods

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  • Contains interviews with the main stakeholders in past, current, and future basic income experiments
  • Informs students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers the questions stemming from basic income experiments
  • Includes cases studies on basic income experiments in various countries

Part of the book series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)

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This book brings together insights and reflections following a set of interviews conducted with the main stakeholders involved in past, current, and future basic income experiments. It provides an analysis of some of the major elements and factors influencing experiments, as well of some of their most important outputs understood as results of their own experimental design, their sociological and political basis, and the epistemological status of their results.


By pursuing a bottom-up strategy, where the interviews conducted take a pivotal role in the collection and analysis phase of the book, this book gathers key questions relating to policy experiments. Some questions reflected upon include the general idea of why one should engage and implement a basic income experiment, and the paradox consisting in the fact that most basic income experiments fall short of being closely considered “pure” basic income schemes. In facing the question and the paradox head-on,the book assesses questions of experimental design, the political and social context surrounding the policy, and the main results and what can they tell us about basic income.

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. What We Have Learned from the Interviews

  2. New Questions the Interviews Have Raised

  3. How to Answer the New Questions About Basic Income Experiments, Pilots and Policies?

Authors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Filosofia, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Roberto Merrill

  • University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Catarina Neves

  • University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Bru Laín

About the authors

Roberto Merrill is an assistant professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Minho, where he does research at the Centre for Ethics, Politics & Society. He has published and edited several books, the most recent one in 2019 on basic income (in Portuguese). He co-edited with Daniel Weinstock a book on Political Neutrality: a Re-evaluation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Catarina Neves holds an MSc in Management with a minor in social enterprise from Nova School of Business and Economics. She is currently working in her PhD thesis on the philosophical justification of Unconditional Basic Income, and in what way can the theoretical concepts be found in empirical experiments of UBI.

Bru Laín researched at the Karl Polanyi Institute for Political Economy (Concordia University), the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (University of Brighton), and the Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale (UC Louvain), and works between social policies and political philosophy.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Basic Income Experiments

  • Book Subtitle: A Critical Examination of Their Goals, Contexts, and Methods

  • Authors: Roberto Merrill, Catarina Neves, Bru Laín

  • Series Title: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89120-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89119-0Published: 01 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89122-0Published: 02 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89120-6Published: 30 November 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2662-3803

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-3811

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 229

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Public Policy, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

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