A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens (Hardcover, 2018)

Part one: UBI, available tests, testing problems, and past experiments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Universal Basic Income and its more testable sibling, the Negative Income Tax Chapter 3: Available testing techniques Chapter 4: Testing difficulties Chapter 5: The practical impossibility of testing UBI Chapter 6: BIG experiments of the 1970s and the public reaction to them Chapter 7: New experimental findings 2009-2013 Part Two: The place of experiments in the political economy of UBI Chapter 8: Why UBI experiments cannot resolve much of the public disagreement about UBI Chapter 9: The political economy of the decision to have a UBI experiment Chapter 10: The chain of misunderstanding between experimenters and their nonspecialist audience Chapter 11: Overcoming spin, sensationalism misunderstanding, and the streetlight effect Part Three: From the debate to the test Chapter 12: The bottom line Chapter 13: Identifying important empirical claims in the UBI debate Chapter 14: Claims that don't need a test Chapter 15: Claims that can't be tested with available techniques Chapter 16: Claims that can be tested but only partially, indirectly, or inconclusively Chapter 17: From the dream test to good tests within feasible budgets