Basic Income Studies
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Country

Germany

Journal ISSN: 19320183

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

History: 2009-2011, 2013-2021

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Basic income is a universal income grant available to every citizen without means test or work requirement. Academic discussion of basic income and related policies has been growing in the fields of economics philosophy political science sociology and public policy over the last few decadeswith dozens of journal articles published each year and basic income constituting the subject of more than 30 books in the last 10 years. In addition the political discussion of basic income has been expanding through social organizations NGOs and other advocacy groups. Internationally recent years have witnessed the endorsement of basic income by grassroots movements as well as government officials in developing countries such as Brazil or SouthAfrica.As the community of people working on this issue has been expanding all over the world incorporating grassroots activists high profile academicsincluding several Nobel Prize winners in economicsand policymakers the amount of high quality research on this topic has increased considerably. In the light of such extensive scholarship on this topic the need to coordinate research efforts through a journal specifically devoted to basic income and cognate policies became pressing. Basic Income Studies BIS is the first academic journal to focus specifically on basic income and cognate policies.