Karl Widerquist is a visiting lecturer at the University of Reading (UK). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the City University of New York. He is coauthor of Economics for Social Workers and coeditor of the Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee. His homepage is www.widerquist.com/karl.
Basic Income
The Physical Basis of Voluntary Trade, Human Rights Review (2008)
The article discusses the conditions under which can we say that people enter the economic...
The Basic Income Guarantee and the goals of equality, efficiency, and environmentalism (with Michael Lewis), Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation (2008)
The Handbook of Basic Income Research (with Jurgen De Wispelaere, Jose Antonio Noguera, and Yannick Vanderborght), edited volume, forthcoming with Blackwell Publishers (2007)
This Handbook will gather some of the most important readings on basic income from the...
The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee (with Michael Lewis and Steven Pressman) (2005)
Labor Economics
A Failure to Communicate: What (If Anything) Can we Learn from the Negative Income Tax Experiments?, The Journal of Socio-Economics (2005)
The U.S. and Canadian governments conducted five negative income tax experiments between 1968 and...
Political Theory
A Dilemma for Libertarianism, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (2009)
This article presents a dilemma for libertarianism. It argues that libertarian principles of acquisition and...
The Physical Basis of Voluntary Trade, Human Rights Review (2008)
The article discusses the conditions under which can we say that people enter the economic...
Libertarianism, The International Encyclopedia of Public Policy (2008)
This is an encyclopedia entry on libertarianism covering right-libertarianism, left-libertarianism, and libertarian socialism.