A Scandalous Proposal: Ethical Attractions of Basic Income

Labour's Income Share in an Islamic Economic Framework: A Proposal

In standard discussions (capitalistic economy), business firms and the income distribution property of production factors are dealt with in a manner in which they are independent from each other. and there is no interaction as such between them. Furthermore, no role whatsoever is assumed for externalities. If we accept that there is interaction between production factors, and these 1actors, bec...

Universal basic income as a preferential social dividend a proposal for the Colombian case

This paper proposes creating a Citizen’s Universal Fund (CUF) (Fondo Universal Ciudadano, FUC), an enterprise having social patrimony, to which each Colombian would be associated through acquiring a share promising to pay her a perpetual income (after holding the share for 20 years), which we shall call the Preferential Social Dividend (PSD), (Dividendo Social Preferencial, DSP). The proposal i...

Basic income – A transcultural perspective

A proposal for ethical organ donation.

The Persistence of Poverty in Free Market Economic Systems and the Basic Income Proposal

A new economic model is presented. The Persistent Poverty Model shows one possibility of long term general equilibrium with unemployment. This model allows us to explain the NAIRU level and the poor results of conventional economic policies against poverty and long term unemployment. According to this theoretic model, an unconditional basic income policy would be able to reach both targets: pov...