Basic Income Pilots: Uses, Limitations and Design Principles

Standing, Guy

Abstract

AbstractThe position underlying this article is that while pilots are not strictly required to justify moving in the direction of a basic income system, nevertheless they can play several useful functions in the debate. These include rebutting common preconceptions, for instance that basic income will make people ‘lazy’, indicating non-monetary benefits such as improved health and wellbeing, and testing how a basic income might best be introduced in a given region, country or city. In that context the article goes on to present 19 guiding principles for the design, implementation and evaluation of basic income pilots, with examples of selected experiments and pilots past and present.

Citation

Standing, G. (2021). Basic Income Pilots: Uses, Limitations and Design Principles. Basic Income Studies, 16(1), 75-99. https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2021-0021

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Jun 25, 2021
• Publication Date: Jun 25, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jan 11, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 11, 2023
• Journal: Basic Income Studies
• Print ISSN: 2194-6094
• Electronic ISSN: 1932-0183
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 75-99
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2021-0021
• Keywords: basic income experiments, pilots, ethics, basic income, principles for pilots
• Publisher URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/bis-2021-0021/html