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Basic Income Studies
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1932-0183
Edited by: Anne-Louise Haagh, Fabio Waltenberg
- Online ISSN: 1932-0183
- Type: Journal
- Language: English
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- First published: June 20, 2006
- Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year
- Audience: Basic Income Studies (BIS) is the first peer-reviewed journal devoted to basic income and related issues of poverty relief and universal welfare. An exciting venture supported by a major international network of scholars, policymakers, and activists, Basic Income Studies is the only forum for scholarly research on this leading edge movement in contemporary social policy. Articles discuss the design and implementation of basic income schemes, and address the theory and practice of universal welfare in clear, non-technical language that engages the wider policy community. The journal's editors represent the forefront of research in poverty, political theory, welfare reform, ethics, and public finance, at institutions such as the University of Montreal, Georgetown University-Qatar, Université Catholique de Louvain, Australian National University, Stockholm University, National University of La Plata, University of York, University of Hamburg, Columbia University, Universitat de Barcelona, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. BIS Founding Organizations BIS was initiated by the Spanish basic income network, Red Renta Básica (RRB), the Spanish Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (IEF), and the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), and supported by the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG). BIS gratefully acknowledges the support of these organizations. Publication History Three issues/year Content available since 2006 (Volume 1, Issue 1) ISSN: 1932-0183 What scholars are saying about Basic Income Studies The proposal of an unconditional basic income is a simple idea that is at the core of radical thinking about poverty and unemployment, social justice and social cohesion in a wide variety of countries, and increasingly throughout the world. BIS's ambition is to stimulate and disseminate rigorous, undogmatic discussion about this and related ideas. The young international and interdisciplinary team that launched the project is well equipped to live up to this ambition. Philippe Van Parijs , Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale, Université Catholique de Louvain and Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University Basic Income is on the cusp of becoming a veritable social movement, with this journal serving as its intellectual wing. It will serve as an important source of information about the movement for outsiders, and as an important venue for key debates within the movement. I will be watching its development over the coming years with the keenest of interest. Robert E. Goodin , Joint Professor of Social and Political Theory and Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Basic Income Studies will help bring what is an already flourishing debate to the attention of a larger number of scholars, and help develop, sharpen and clarify the issues for all those involved in universities, policy arenas and in the growing grass roots campaigns in a wide variety of countries. The editors deserve thanks for their very welcome initiative. Carole Pateman , Professor of Political Science. Department of Political Science, University of California, USA Basic Income Studies provides an innovative and valuable venue for research on one of the most vital and intractable social problems facing the discipline of economics and the social sciences in general. Douglas Bowles , Professor of Economics and Director of the Social Science Consortium, University of Missouri, Kansas City Basic Income Studies covers cutting edge research in an area of social justice that is central to my research. Darrel Moellendorf , Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs, San Diego State University This is a major source of high quality articles on the basic income grant initiative; of interest, I believe, to economists, political scientists and others in the social sciences, as well as philosophers. Len Krimerman , Professor of Philosophy and Director of Public and Community Engagement, University of Connecticut Basic Income Studies News BIS Essay Prize The 2017 BIS Essay Prize has been awarded to Thomas R. Wells (Tilburg University, Tilburg School of the Humanities) for his paper at the 17th BIEN Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, “Just End Poverty Now: The Case for a Global Minimum Income.” The 2016 BIS Essay Prize has been awarded to Fatoshi Fukuma (Takasaki City University of Economics) for his paper at the 16th BIEN Congress in Seoul, Korea, “Meaningful Work, Worthwhile Life, and Self-Respect: Reexamination of the Rawlsian Perspective on Basic Income in a Property-Owning Democracy.” The 2015 BIS Essay Prize has been awarded to M. Oliver Heydorn (The Clifford Hugh Douglas Institute for the Study and Promotion of Social Credit) at the 14th NABIG Congress in New York City for his paper, “A National Dividend vs. a Basic Income – Similarities and Differences.” The 2014 BIS Essay Prize has been awarded to Toru Yamamori (Doshisha University) at the 15th BIEN Congress in Montreal for his paper, “A Feminist Way to Unconditional Basic Income: Claimants Unions and Women’s Liberation Movements in 1970s Britain.” The 2013 BIS Essay Prize was not awarded. The 2012 BIS Essay Prize was not awarded. The 2011 BIS Essay Prize has been awarded to Angela Cummine (University of Oxford), for her paper at the 10th NABIG Congress in New York City, “Overcoming Dividend Skepticism: Why the World’s Sovereign Wealth Funds Are Not Paying Basic Income Dividends”; Honorable mention was awarded to Daniel Layman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) for his paper, “Locke on Basic Income.” The 2010 BIS Essay Prize has been awarded to Hamid Tabatabai (Independent Researcher), for his paper at the 14th BIEN Congress in Munich, “The Basic Income Road to Reforming Iran’s Price Subsidies.” The 2009 BIS Essay Prize has been awarded to Wesley Pech (Wofford College) at the 7th USBIG Congress in New York for his paper "Behavioral Economics and The Basic Income Guarantee". Chandra Pasma (Citizens for Public Justice) received an Honourable Mention for her paper "Working Through the Work Disincentive." The 2008 BIS Essay Prize has been awarded to Ian Gareth Orton (International Labour Organisation) at the 10th BIEN Congress in Dublin for his paper "Eliminating Child Labour: The Promise of a Basic Income". Bill Jordan (University of Plymouth) received an Honourable Mention for his paper "Basic Income and Social Value." The 2007 BIS Essay Prize was awarded to Laura Bambrick (University of Oxford) at the 6th USBIG Congress in New York for her paper "A BIG response to Wollstonecraft's Dilemma." Richard Caputo (Yeshiva University) received an Honourable Mention for his paper "The Death Knoll of BIG or BIG by Stealth: A preliminary assessment of BIG political viability around the globe." The 2006 Essay Prize was awarded to Michael Howard (University of Maine) for his article "A NAFTA Dividend: A proposal for a guaranteed minimum income for North America." Three other essays were awarded an Honourable Mention:"Good for Women? Advantages and risks of basic income from a gender perspective" by Julieta Elgarte (Universidad Nacional de La Plata/Université Catholique de Louvain); "Why Switzerland? Basic income and the development potential of Swiss Republicanism" by Eric Patry (University of St. Gallen); and "Australia's Disabling Income Support System" by Jennifer Mays (Queensland University of Technology). The BIS Essay Prize, organised annually in association with Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and USBIG respectively, encourages promising research on basic income and related policies and is awarded to an essay that exemplifies a high standard of quality and original basic income research. BIS Prize Essays are published in a forthcoming issue of Basic Income Studies .
