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 Basic Income Guarantee and the goals of equality, efficiency, and environmentalism (with Michael A. Lewis) (2009)
The most important issue in equality – if not in all economic policy – is...
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...
An Introduction to Citizens Capital Accounts, Proceedings of the Green Economics Conference: Social Aspects of Green Economics (2008)
Problems with Wage Subsidies: Phelps's economic discipline and undisciplined economics, International Journal of Green Economics (2008)
This paper discusses problems with wage subsidy proposals, specifically focusing on the proposal in Rewarding...
The Basic Income Guarantee and the goals of equality, efficiency, and environmentalism (with Michael Lewis), Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation (2008)
Labor Economics
The Basic Income Guarantee and the goals of equality, efficiency, and environmentalism (with Michael A. Lewis) (2009)
The most important issue in equality – if not in all economic policy – is...
Problems with Wage Subsidies: Phelps's economic discipline and undisciplined economics, International Journal of Green Economics (2008)
This paper discusses problems with wage subsidy proposals, specifically focusing on the proposal in Rewarding...
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...
A Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments: Looking Back at the Most Innovative Field Studies in Social Policy, The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee (2005)
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.
Does She Exploit or Doesn't She?, The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee (2005)
Gijs Van Donselaar uses a Guathier-based definition of exploitation (A exploits B if A is...