Karl Widerquist is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University-Qatar. He specializes in political philosophy. His research is mostly in the area of distributive justice—the ethics of who has what. He writes regularly on Basic Income in general and Basic Income Experiments in Particular. He holds two doctorates—one in Political Theory from Oxford University (2006) and one in Economics from the City University of New York (1996).
He is the author of, A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), coauthor of Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press 2017) and author of Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).
He is coeditor of Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research (Wiley-Blackwell 2013), Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and the Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee (Ashgate 2005).
He was a founding editor of the journal, Basic Income Studies. He has published more than twenty scholarly articles and book chapters. His articles have appeared in journals such as Raisons Politiques, Political Studies; the Eastern Economic Journal; Politics and Society; and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. He was co-chair of BIEN for seven years, 2010-2017. Karl Widerquist was one of the founders of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) Network and its coordinator for its first ten years 2000-2010. He was NewsFlash editor for USBIG 2010-2015 and NewsFlash for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) 2010-2015. He was one of the founders of BIEN’s news website, Basic Income News, and its principle editor for its first four years.
Publications on Basic Income Experiments
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He is the author of, A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), coauthor of Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press 2017) and author of Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).
He is coeditor of Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research (Wiley-Blackwell 2013), Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and the Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee (Ashgate 2005).
He was a founding editor of the journal, Basic Income Studies. He has published more than twenty scholarly articles and book chapters. His articles have appeared in journals such as Raisons Politiques, Political Studies; the Eastern Economic Journal; Politics and Society; and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. He was co-chair of BIEN for seven years, 2010-2017. Karl Widerquist was one of the founders of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) Network and its coordinator for its first ten years 2000-2010. He was NewsFlash editor for USBIG 2010-2015 and NewsFlash for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) 2010-2015. He was one of the founders of BIEN’s news website, Basic Income News, and its principle editor for its first four years.
Publications on Basic Income Experiments
- Karl Widerquist, 2018, A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Karl Widerquist, 2018, “The Devil’s in the Caveats: A Brief Discussion of the Difficulties of Basic Income Experiments,” CESifo Forum 19 (3), September, 30-35.
- Karl Widerquist, 2006. “The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment” Basic Income Studies 1 (2): 1-5.
- Robert Levine, Harold Watts, Robinson Hollister, Walter Williams, Alice O’Connor, and Karl Widerquist, 2005. “A Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments: Looking Back at the Most Innovative Field Studies in Social Policy,” in The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, Karl Widerquist, Michael A. Lewis, and Steven Pressman (eds.) Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 95-106.
- Karl Widerquist, 2005. “A Failure to Communicate: What (if Anything) Can We Learn From the Negative Income Tax Experiments?” the Journal of Socio-Economics 34 (1): 49–81.
- Karl Widerquist, A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, December 2018
- Karl Widerquist and Grant McCall, 2017. Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
- Georg Arndt and Karl Widerquist, 2019, “Deceptively Simple: The Uselessness of Gross Cost in the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Universal Basic Income,” Maine Policy Review, November
- Karl Widerquist, 2019, “The Pursuit of Accord: Toward a Theory of Justice With a Second-Best Approach to the Insider-Outsider Problem,” Raisons Politiques 73 (1), 61-82
- Jean-Fabien Spitz, Hillel Steiner, Philippe Van Parijs and Karl Widerquist, 2019, “Why Private Property?” Raisons Politiques 73 (1), 119-131
- Karl Widerquist, 2018, “The Devil’s in the Caveats: A Brief Discussion of the Difficulties of Basic Income Experiments,” CESifo Forum 19 (3), September, 30-35
- Karl Widerquist, 2017, “The Cost of Basic Income: Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations,” Basic Income Studies 12 (2), December
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