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Why wait until the robots take our jobs? We need a basic income now. By Karl Widerquist, OpenDemocracy, 23 September 2024

The Deep and Enduring History of Universal Basic Income. By Karl Widerquist, the MIT Press Reader, March 7, 2024. Reprinted in The Big Think, July 11, 2024

Karl Widerquist, online early, “The Debate Over the Definition of Basic Income [open access].” Basic Income Studies. DOI: 10.1515/bis-2024-0021

Karl Widerquist, 2024, “Functional Finance and the Sustainability of Universal Basic Income [open access],” Basic Income Studies 19 (1), 15-29, April. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2023-0024

Karl Widerquist, 2023, “Problems with Pilot Projects,” the Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income, Second Edition. Malcolm Torry (editor). New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 493-508, November

Karl Widerquist. 2024. Universal Basic Income: Essential Knowledge, Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (272 pages) (publisher’s webpage) (free preview)

Karl Widerquist, 2021, “Further Reflections on Basic Income Experiments,” Ethical Perspectives 28 (1), March, 103-115

Karl Widerquist, 2021, “Possibilities and Pitfalls of Basic Income Experiments,” Ethical Perspectives 28 (1), March, 7-16

Karl Widerquist, 2023. The Problem of Property: Taking the Freedom of Nonowners Seriously, Palgrave MacMillan (138 pages)

Karl Widerquist and Alexander de Roo discuss Universal Basic Income. Hosted by Ali Mutlu Köylüoğlu, Zoombalaki YouTube Channel, April 20, 2021

Karl Widerquist and Jean-Fabien Spitz discuss the history and justification of Universal Basic Income. Futurs de la Protection Sociale YouTube Channel, recorded, May 2018, post March 31, 2021

UBI is the farthest thing from something for nothing. Karl Widerquist speaks at the 2020 Basic Income March in New Orleans, Humanity First Movement Louisiana YouTube Channel, recorded September 19, 2020, posted September 20, 2020

Karl Widerquist, “America is in crisis. We need universal basic income now [The usual arguments against UBI don’t apply to the Emergency UBI],” the Guardian, 20 Mar 2020

The Fall and Rise of the Basic Income Movement: My personal reflections after following it for 40 years. By Karl Widerquist, the Indepentarian (blog), Basic Income News, February 7, 2020

Karl Widerquist, 2020, “The Negative Income Tax Experiments of the 1970s,” the Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income. Malcolm Torry (editor). New York: Palgrave-Macmillan

Eduardo Suplicy Interviews Karl Widerquist, Recorded at the BIEN Congress In Hyderabad, India, 2019, Rede Brasileira de Renda Básica YouTube Channel, posted January 10, 2020

Karl Widerquist, 2020, “Three Waves of Basic Income Support,” the Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income. Malcolm Torry (editor). New York: Palgrave-Macmillan

Georg Arndt and Karl Widerquist, 2023, “The Cost of Basic Income in the United Kingdom: A
Microsimulation Analysis,” the International Journal of Microsimulation 16 (3), 1-18,
December, DOI: https://doi.org/10.34196/ijm.00286

Secular and Religious Perspectives on Basic Income. Panel discussion with Stuart White (Chair), Malcolm Torry, Hasanain Jaffar, Louise Haagh, Robert Van der Veen, Karl Widerquist, and Faizun Mustafa. INBI Foundation YouTube Channel, December 16, 2019

Karl Widerquist, “End the Threat of Economic Destitution Now,” Open Democracy, 17 September 2019

Karl Widerquist, 2019, “Book Review – The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future,” Delphi – Interdisciplinary Review of Emerging Technologies 2, Issue 1, 59 – 60

Georg Arndt and Karl Widerquist, 2019, “Deceptively Simple: The Uselessness of Gross Cost in the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Universal Basic Income,” Maine Policy Review, November

Jean-Fabien Spitz, Hillel Steiner, Philippe Van Parijs and Karl Widerquist, 2019, “Why Private Property?” Raisons Politiques 73 (1), 119-131

Karl Widerquist, 2019 “The Growth of the Australian Basic Income Movement,” in Implementing a Basic Income in Australia: Pathways Forward, Elise Klein, Jennifer Mays, and Tim Dunlop (eds.) New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Jean-Fabien Spitz, Hillel Steiner, Philippe Van Parijs and Karl Widerquist, 2019, “Why Private Property?” Raisons Politiques 73 (1), 119-131

Karl Widerquist, 2019, “The Pursuit of Accord: Toward a Theory of Justice With a Second-Best Approach to the Insider-Outsider Problem,” Raisons Politiques 73 (1), 61-82

Karl Widerquist, A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, December 2018

Karl Widerquist, 2018, “The Devil’s in the Caveats: A Brief Discussion of the Difficulties of Basic Income Experiments,” CESifo Forum 19 (3), September, 30-35

Karl Widerquist, 2017, “The Cost of Basic Income: Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations,” Basic Income Studies 12 (2), December

Karl Widerquist, “Basic Income’s Third Wave,” OpenDemocracy, October 18, 2017

The Political Economy of Basic Income Trials. Basic income Iceland 2017 – Day 2 at 2:03:56. BIEN Island [BIEN Iceland] YouTube Channel, September 1, 2017.

16th Annual U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Congress Opening Session. Panel discussion with Karl Widerquist, Andy Stern, Diane Pagen, and Michael A. Lewis. Moderated by Natalie Foster, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College YouTube Channel, July 10, 2017

Karl Widerquist, December 22, 2016. “The People’s Endowment.” In Axel Gosseries and Inigo Gonzalez (eds.) Institutions for Future Generations, Oxford University Press, pp. 312-330

Karl Widerquist, 2015. “The Piketty Observation Against the Institutional Background: How natural is this natural tendency and what can we do about it?” Basic Income Studies 10 (1), June, 83-90

Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall, 2015. “Myths about the State of Nature and the Reality of Stateless Societies.” Analyse & Kritik 37 (2), August, 233-257

Karl Widerquist, 2014, “Review of The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies.” Basic Income News: BInews.org

Karl Widerquist, 2014, “Review of Marshall Brain: Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future.” Basic Income News: BInews.org

Karl Widerquist, March 31, 2013. “Is Basic Income Still Worth Talking About?” in The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st CenturyVolume II, Robert S Rycroft (ed.) Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 568-584

Karl Widerquist, March 31, 2013. “Is Basic Income Still Worth Talking About?” in The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st CenturyVolume II, Robert S Rycroft (ed.) Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 568-584

Karl Widerquist, September 26, 2013, “The Basic Income Grant as Social Safety Net for Namibia: Experience and lessons from around the world,” in Social safety nets in Namibia: Assessing current programmes and future options, Research Department of the Bank of Namibia (editor), Windhoek, Namibia: Bank of Namibia, pp. 43-67

Karl Widerquist, March 2013. Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (241 pages)

Jose A. Noguera and Karl Widerquist, 2013. “Basic Income as a Post-Productivist Policy,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Karl Widerquist, 2013. “Freedom and Basic Income,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, and Yannick Vanderborght, 2013. “The Implementation of Basic Income,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, and Yannick Vanderborght, 2013. “The Economics of Basic Income,” inBasic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Karl Widerquist, Yannick Vanderborght, and José A. Noguera, 2013. “The Idea of an Unconditional Income for Everyone,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Karl Widerquist, 2013. “Reciprocity and Exploitation,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Yannick Vanderborght, José A. Noguera, and Karl Widerquist, 2013. “Politics,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Karl Widerquist, 2013. “Theories of Justice and Basic Income,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Yannick Vanderborght and Karl Widerquist, 2013. “The Feminist Response to Basic Income,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 

Karl Widerquist, 2013. “Reciprocity and Exploitation,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Yannick Vanderborght, José A. Noguera, and Karl Widerquist, 2013. “Politics,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Karl Widerquist, Yannick Vanderborght, and José A. Noguera, 2013. “The Idea of an Unconditional Income for Everyone,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, and Yannick Vanderborght, 2013. “The Implementation of Basic Income,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Karl Widerquist, “The Alaska Model: a citizen’s income in practice,” Our Kingdom, Democratic Wealth: building a citizens’ economy. 24 April 2013

Karl Widerquist, Jose Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.), 2013.Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (563 pages)

Karl Widerquist, 2013. “Theories of Justice and Basic Income,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Yannick Vanderborght and Karl Widerquist, 2013. “The Feminist Response to Basic Income,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research, Karl Widerquist, José A. Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 

Unconditional Basic Income and Freedom / Grundeinkommen und Freiheit (BIEN2012). By Robert Ulmer, Karl Widerquist, and Karl Reitter, Netzwerk Grundeinkommen YouTube Channel, recorded 2012, post January 20, 2013

Status Freedom. PowerPoint presentation by Karl Widerquist. Set to music by Robin Ketelaars. Robin Ketelaars YouTube Channel, September 21, 2012

Karl Widerquist and Allan Sheahen, September 3, 2012. “The Basic Income Guarantee in the United States: Past Experience, Current Proposals,” in Basic Income Worldwide: Horizons of Reform, Matthew Murray and Carole Pateman (eds.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 11-32

Karl Widerquist, 2012. “A Permanent Endowment for the United States,” in Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform Around the World, Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 163-167

Karl Widerquist, 2012. “Exporting the Alaska Model to Alaska: How Big Could the Permanent Fund Be if the State Really Tried? And Can a Larger Fund Insulate an Oil-Exporter from the End of the Boom?” in Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform Around the World, Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 169-180

Karl Widerquist, 2012. “Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Basic Income in Practice,” Democratic Imperatives: Innovations in Rights, Participation, and Economic Citizenship. Report of the Task Force on Democracy, Economic Security, and Social Justice in a Volatile Word, American Political Science Association (ed.). Washington, DC: The American Political Science Association (April), p. 64

Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard, 2012. “Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska’s Permanent Fund and Dividend,” in Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model, Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 115-122

Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard, 2012. “Lessons from the Alaska Model,” in Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model, Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 221-228

Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard, 2012. “Success in Alaska,” in Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model, Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3-15

Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.) 2012. Exporting the Alaska Model:Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (291 pages)

Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.) 2012. Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model,New York: Palgrave Macmillan (267 pages)

Michael W. Howard and Karl Widerquist, 2012. “Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation?” in Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model, Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 205-220

Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard, 2012. “The Alaska Model as a Menu of Options,” in Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform Around the World, Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 243-251

Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard, 2012. “Exporting an Idea,” in Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform Around the World, Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3-14

Karl Widerquist “Commentary: Let’s change the way Alaska Permanent Fund pays dividends,” the Alaska Dispatch, December 5, 2012

Karl Widerquist “Interesting Times Ahead for Alaska Permanent Fund,” the Alaska Dispatch, June 3, 2012

Karl Widerquist, 2012. “Citizens’ Capital Accounts: A Proposal,” in Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform Around the World, Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard (eds.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 183-203

Karl Widerquist 2011 “Review Essay: Two Memoirs Tell the History of the Alaska Dividend,” Citizens Income Newsletter (1)

Karl Widerquist, 2011. “Why we Demand an Unconditional Basic Income: the ECSO freedom case,” in Arguing about Justice: Essays for Philippe Van Parijs, Axel Gosseries and Yannick Vanderborght (eds.) Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Presses universitaires de Louvain, pp. 387-394

Karl Widerquist, 2010. “Review of In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, Charles Murray,” Review of Political Economy 22 (1): 170-174

Karl Widerquist “Viewpoint: Lessons of the Alaska Dividend,” Citizens Income Newsletter, Issue 3, 2010

Karl Widerquist, 2010. “The Physical Basis of Voluntary Trade,” Human Rights Review 11 (1): 83-103

Karl Widerquist “A BIG Idea: A Minimum Income Guarantee,” Multinational Monitor, Volume 30, No. 3, May/Jun 2009

Karl Widerquist, 2009. “Jeremy Waldron and the Basic Income Debate, comment on three books by Jeremy Waldron,” Citizens Income Newsletter (1)

Karl Widerquist, 2009. “Review of Just Distribution: Rawlsian Liberalism and the Politics of Basic Income, Simon Birnbaum,” Citizens Income Newsletter (1)

Karl Widerquist, 2008. “Review of The Failed Welfare Revolution: America’s Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy, Brian Steensland,” Citizens Income Newsletter (1)

Karl Widerquist, 2008. “Problems with Wage Subsidies: Phelps’s economic discipline and undisciplined economics” International Journal of Green Economics 2 (3): 329-339

Karl Widerquist “Viewpoint: What Does the Stone Age Have to Do With Us?” Citizens Income Newsletter, Issue 3, 2008

Karl Widerquist, 2008. “An Introduction to Citizens Capital Accounts,” in Social Aspects of Green Economics, Miriam Kennet (ed.) Oxford: Green Economics Institute, pp. 79-80.

Karl Widerquist “Conference Report: The Eleventh BIEN Congress” Citizens Income Newsletter Issue 2, 2007

Karl Widerquist, 2007. “Review of the Ethics of Stakeholding, Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere, and Stuart White,” the Citizens Income Newsletter (1)

Karl Widerquist, 2006. “The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment” Basic Income Studies 1 (2): 1-5

Karl Widerquist, 2006. “Who Exploits Who?” Political Studies 54 (3): 444-464

Karl Widerquist and Michael A. Lewis, 2006. “The Basic Income Guarantee and the Goals of Equality, Efficiency, and Environmentalism,” International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment 2 (1): 21-43. (Revised version published in Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation, Philip Lawn (Ed.) London: Routledge, pp. 163-183)

Karl Widerquist and Jurgen De Wispelaere, 2006. “Launching a Basic Income Journal” Basic Income Studies 1 (1): 1-6

Karl Widerquist, 2005. “A Failure to Communicate: What (if Anything) Can We Learn From the Negative Income Tax Experiments?” the Journal of Socio-Economics 34 (1): 49-81

Michael Lewis, Steven Pressman & Karl Widerquist, 2005. “The Basic Income Guarantee and Social Economics,” The Review of Social Economy 63 (4): 587-593. (Revised version published as “An introduction to the Basic Income Guarantee” in The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, Widerquist, Lewis, Pressman (eds.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005)

Karl Widerquist, 2005. “Does She Exploit or Doesn’t She?” in The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, Karl Widerquist, Michael A. Lewis, and Steven Pressman (eds.), Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 138-162

Karl Widerquist, 2005. “Review of Libertarianism Without Inequality by Michael Otsuka,” the Citizens Income Newsletter (1)

Karl Widerquist, 2005. “Introduction to the Special Issue on the Basic Income Guarantee,” The Journal of Socio-Economics 34 (1): 1–2

Karl Widerquist, Michael Anthony Lewis, and Steven Pressman (eds.), 2005. The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate (352 pages)

Robert Levine, Harold Watts, Robinson Hollister, Walter Williams, Alice O’Connor, and Karl Widerquist, 2005. “A Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments: Looking Back at the Most Innovative Field Studies in Social Policy,” in The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, Karl Widerquist, Michael A. Lewis, and Steven Pressman (eds.) Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 95-106.

Karl Widerquist, 2004. “The Labour Market Findings of the Negative Income Tax Experiments and Their Effects on Policy and Public Opinion,” in Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe and North America, Guy Standing (ed.), London, Anthem Press, pp. 497-537

Karl Widerquist, 2004. “Review of The Civic Minimum by Stuart White,” the Citizens Income Newsletter(1)

Karl Widerquist, 2004. “Review of Real Libertarianism Assessed, Andrew Reeve and Andrew Williams (eds.),” the Citizens Income Newsletter (1)

Karl Widerquist, 2001. “Review of The Political Economy of Inequality, Ackerman, Goodwin, Dougherty, and Gallagher (eds.),” the Journal of Economic Issues 35 (4): 1054-1056

Karl Widerquist, 2001. “Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income, Part II” the Journal of Economic Issues35 (4): 1019-1030

Karl Widerquist “The Basic Income Guarantee,” Synthesis/Regeneration 26, Fall 2001

Karl Widerquist, 2001. “Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income, Part I” the Journal of Economic Issues35 (3): 749-757

Karl Widerquist, 1999. “Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income” Politics and Society, 33 (3): 386-401

Karl Widerquist “The Money-Making Ethic,” Chronogram Magazine, New Paltz, NY, January 1999

Academic biography

Link to my YouTube channel’s playlist of videos on Universal Basic Income

Audio-Video

The New Abnormal [podcast] (audio interview). By Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy, iHeart Radio, June 25, 2024 (Widerquist interview begins at 35:43).

Left Libertarianism, Basic Income, and Property(?) with Karl Widerquist [Imagine More Episode #36]. Interview by Seth Kafila and Jesse Philippe, Imagine More (podcast and YouTube channel), available on YouTube, Spotify, and other venues, May 8, 2024

Understanding Universal Basic Income Karl Widerquist. By Ching Juhl, Juhl Media [YouTube Channel], October 23, 2024

Book Launch: Universal Basic Income: Essential Knowledge. Panel Discussion with Ian Almond, Anjana Jacob, Gabor Scheiring, and Karl Widerquist. Moderated by Danyel Reiche. Posted by Georgetown University-Qatar and by YouTube, 1 October 2024
Left Libertarianism, Basic Income, and Property(?) with Karl Widerquist [Imagine More Episode #36]. Interview by Seth Kafila and Jesse Philippe, Imagine More (podcast and YouTube channel), available on YouTube, Spotify, and other venues, May 8, 2024
Smart Talk: UBI – What It Is and Why We Need It (video). Interview of Karl Widerquist by Edward Dodson. Henry George School of Social Science, June 3, 2024.
Dr. Karl Widerquist says we need Universal Basic Income now. By Dr. Al Scott, the Rational View (podcast), Episode 189. March 23, 2024. Available on Spotify, PodBean, and Apple Podcasts.
An interview with Karl Widerquist, “Universal Basic Income.” By Stephen Pimpare, the New Books in Public Policy Podcast, posted March 22, 2024. Available on most podcast-streaming platforms including Spotify.

Give People Money: Universal Basic Income, [interview with] Karl Widerquist. By Jason Chen. Inside the Mind of a Philosopher Episode 21, Feb. 25, 2024
ITSA Live! Ep. 20 – Basic Income Theory with Karl Widerquist [Audio Interview]. Hosted by Scott Santens, Conrad Shaw, and Josh Worth. Comingle YouTube Channel. Audio recorded February 21, 2024, posted March 10, 2024
What’s Required to Make UBI a Reality? A Video Interview of Karl Widerquist by Zachary Weaver and Sathvik Vasam, UBI Builders, Peer-to-Peer Unconditional Income YouTube Channel, recorded October 24, posted November 11, 2023.
BOOK LAUNCH: The Problem of Property Taking the Freedom of Nonowners Seriously By Karl Widerquist.Georgetown University Qatar Youtube Channel, recorded October 3, 2023 at Georgetown University-Qatar, posted October 22, 2023.

Ethics of UBI, video 14: Anca Gheaus, “Basic Income, Gender Justice and the Costs of Gender-Symmetrical Lifestyles.” By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted February 5, 2022.

Ethics of UBI, video 13: Will Basic Income do justice to women? By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted February 12, 2022.

 
Ethics of UBI, video 12: Non-domination and Basic Income. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted February 12, 2022.

https://youtu.be/RI7vp -7OJg0?si=8Rrtn8fdFzPA05Fb
Ethics of UBI, video 11: Otto Letho, “Libertarian Perspectives on Basic Income.” By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted February 12, 2022.

 
Ethics of UBI, video 10: Louise Haagh, “Developmental Freedom and Social Order.” By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted February 12, 2022.

 
Ethics of UBI, video 9: Philippe Van Parijs’s “Real Libertarian” argument fohttps://youtu. be/UBh0gRmPwUQ?si=s_–pIN6loJY74rMr UBI. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted February 5, 2022.

The Ethics of UBI video 8 Approximating a Property Rights Accord. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted February 5, 2022.

Ethics of UBI, video 7: Alex Gourevitch, “the Basic Income Illusion.” By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted February 3, 2022.

Ethics of UBI, video 6: Guy Standing, “A Commons-Based Argument for Basic Income”. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted February 3, 2022.

 
Ethics of UBI video 5: “Freedom as the Power to Say No” the JPA theory of freedom. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted January 29, 2022.

Ethics of UBI video 4: Introduction to Justice as the Pursuit of Accord. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted January 29, 2022.

Ethics of UBI, video 3: The Prehistory of Private Property. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, posted January 22, 2022.

The Debate Over the definition of Basic Income, presented by Karl Widerquist, hosted by Toru Yamamori for BIEN’s Working Group on the Clarification of the Definition of Basic Income. Annie Miller, Michael Howard, Pierre Madden, and others participate in the discussion. Recorded 8pm 13 March 2024 (Central time – USA). Online now at the link above.

Low-Income People in the United States Are Working Too Much. Interview of Karl Widerquist by Sathvik Vasam and Zachary Weaver. UBI Builders: Peer-to-Peer Unconditional Income YouTube Channel, recorded Summer 2023, posted Sep 25, 2023

On the ethics of UBI: Enno Schmidt talking to Karl Widerquist (video interview). By Enno Schmidt. Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies’ YouTube Channel, Sep 28, 2022

Should we have a voluntary or a mandatory participation economy? By Karl Widerquist in Work, Participation and UBI (with Alina Plitman, Milena Kowalska, and James Mulvale). Chaired by Greg Marston. Recorded at the Basic Income Earth Network Congress, September 28, 2022, posted November 16, 2022

Functional finance economics and UBI. By Karl Widerquist, in Financing and Implementing Basic Income (with Scott Santens, Tory Henderson, and Joe Collins). Hosted by Greg Marston. Recorded at the Basic Income Earth Network Congress, September 28, 2022, posted November 15, 2022

Canadians with Disabilities & their Allies – Karl Widerquist. Interview by Patricia Scrafield. Neil Matheson YouTube Channel, October 24, 2022

Karl Widerquist on UBI, voting and Trust.” By the FRIBIS UBI Workshop, Tom Pogson YouTube Channel, June 23, 2022

Ethics of UBI, video 2: Van Parijs’s “Real Libertarian” Case for UBI. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist’s Research (YouTube Channel), Recorded 14 January 2022, posted 15 January 2022

Karl Widerquist, “Ethics of UBI, video 1: Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist’s Research (YouTube Channel), Recorded 14 January 2022, posted 15 January 2022

International Workshop on Basic Income Manifestos for Presidential Election 2022 in Korea. Hosted by Sarath Davala, BIEN and BIKN, broadcast live January 11th 2022, recording posted January 13, 2022

Universal Basic Income and Property Rights. Interview of Karl Widerquist by Sam Barton. Talk of Today Podcast. YouTube, Aug 6, 2021

UBI and the Dignity of Work. By Techopian Team, Techopian, August 3, 2021

Pilot Projects – UBI Nordic 2019 Conference 6 april 2019. Panel Discussion with Sarath Davala, Jenna Van Draanen, Minna Ylikännö, Joy Ponader, Annie Miller. Hosted by Karl Widerquist, BIEN Norge YouTube Channel, April 7, 2019

Basic Income Pilots and Demonstrations: What Have We Learned? (NABIG 2019 Congress). Panel discussion hosted by Karl Widerquist, USBIG—Official YouTube Channel, posted Apr 1, 2021

Basic Income, the Commons, and Sovereign Wealth Funds. Panel discussion with Guy Standing (Chair), Rahul Basu, Nam Hoon Kang, Karl Widerquist, Hilde Latour, and Joe Geldhof. INBI Foundation YouTube Channel, December 15, 2019

Karl Widerquist, Oct 31, 2018, Basic Income: Favorite Argument in 21 Seconds – UBIVisuals, YouTube

We don’t have freedom without Basic Income. Karl Widerquist, UBIVisuals, YouTube, Nov. 12, 2018

Karl Widerquist Speech at the UBI March in New York, 2019, Juhl Media, Oct 29, 2019

Universal Basic Income: the power to say ‘no’ for everyone, OpenDemocracy, Dec 1, 2019

The Power to Say No and American Social Policy, lecture with questions and answers by Karl Widerquist, delivered at Florida State University’s College of Social Work conference, “Poverty in America: Critical Perspectives on Causes, Effects and Possible Solutions,” March 1, 2019

‘The Prehistory of Private Property’: Karl Widerquist introduces his new book with Grant McCall (video). By Karl Widerquist, Worldwide 9th Meeting of UBI Advocates and UBI Networks, YouTube, Recorded June 9th, 2020. First broadcast: June 14th 2020

Interview with Karl Widerquist, Co-CEO of Basic Income Earth Network [기본소득지구네트워크 공동대표, 칼 와이더키스트(Karl Widerquist) 인터뷰]. 기본소득청’소’년네트워크 / Basic Income Youth Network YouTube Channel, July 2, 2017

My own private basic income, by Karl Widerquist, OpenDemocracy, June 2, 2017.
-Reprinted in Moon Magazine, 2017, “My own private basic income.
-Audio version published by OpenDemocracy, read by Karl Miller, on Curio.io Souncloud channel, “My own private basic income,” November 2017.
-Audio version, “My own private basic income,” is also available on YouTube.

 A Conversation with Karl Widerquist (video). By Ching Juhl (host). Juhl Media, YouTube, June 22, 2020

Karl Widerquist on Private Property (video), By Karl Widerquist (speaker) and Alex Howlett (host) video lecture about “Justice as the Pursuit of Accord,” Boston Basic Income #98, Hosted by Alex Howlett, Apr 15, 2020

Elms College Humanities Lecture: “Freedom, Basic Income, and the Abolition of Poverty”. By Karl Widerquist, ElmsCollegeVideo, YouTube, posted November 18, 2019 (recorded October 28, 2019)

Supporting People, the Environment, UBI (video interview). By Blair Walsingham (host) and Karl Widerquist (interviewee), Its Your Vote (Episode 6), Blair For Congress, YouTube, August 21, 2020

Conversation with Karl Widerquist (video). By Larry Liu. Mr. Liu’s Opinion, June 24, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ugy0-9eaWk&feature=youtu.be
The Universal Basic Income Debate (video). By Petar Josic (host) and Marco Annunziata and Karl Widerquist (debators), Digi-Debates, Aug 13, 2020

Video Interview: Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy. Dan Schneider interviews Karl Widerquist, May 23, 2019

Universal Basic Income–For or Against? A Debate between Karl Widerquist and Oren Cass (video). Moderated by Charles Wheelen. October 30, 2019, The Rockefeller Center and the Political Economy Project of Dartmouth College

Karl Widerquist on UBI History (video). By Karl Widerquist (speaker) and Alex Howlett (host). Boston Basic Income #92, Mar 7, 2020

Debunking the UBI Myths (video). By Jon Munitz, the Hill of Roses, August 11, 2020

Basic Income Tea: #FutureOfWork: Business, but NOT as usual (video). By Antonis Triantafyllakis, Basic Income Tea – Sunday Webinars, Universal Basic Income-Europe, Sunday, 21 June

Karl Widerquist PhD, video interview. By Armando F Sanchez, YouTube, August 10, 2016


People of Basic Income (video report on the Basic Income March, Oct. 26, 2019)
. By Derek Van Gorder, YouTube, December 9, 2019

UBI March – NYC – October 26, 2019 (video). By Juhl Media. Posted October 28, 2019.

The Dan Schneider Video Interview #259: Universal Basic Income: Karl Widerquist, by Dan Schneider, Cosmoetica, Feb 20, 2019

Boston Basic Income #122: Moral Framing (video). By Alex Howlett, Boston Basic Income, Oct 7, 2020

Boston Basic Income #116: Power to Say No (video). Panel discussion hosted by Alex Howlett, Boston Basic Income, YouTube, Aug. 26, 2020

United States and Basic Income & Covid (video). Louise Haagh, Sarath Davala, and Jamie Cooke (hosts) in conversation with Karl Widerquist and Scott Santens, BIEN Conversations, June 5, 2020

Video: Beyond Return – On the transformational potential of UBI, By Andra Bria (host) with panelists Karl Widerquist, Astha Kapoor, and Eric Wycoff Rogers, Beyond Return, YouTube, June 27, 2020

United States and Basic Income & Covid (video). Louise Haagh, Sarath Davala, and Jamie Cooke (hosts) in conversation with Karl Widerquist and Scott Santens, BIEN Conversations, June 5, 2020

Finland’s basic income experiment finds cash boosted well-being but not employment [YouTube link], Kate Snow, NBC Nightly News (February 10, 2019)

Karl Widerquist Georgetown Professor on Basic Income (video Interview), by Matt Orfalea, Matt Orfalea YouTube Channel, January 21, 2017 Republished at Karl Widerquist’s YouTube Channel, Karl Widerquist gets Interviewed by Matt Oraflea on Universal Basic Income, January 21, 2018

Four-part video interview by Joerg Drescher (host), Basic Income Earth Network YouTube Channel, December 16, 2011 Karl Widerquist on the APF (video interview).Karl Widerquist on the current crises and Basic Income (video interview)Karl Widerquist on steps to implement Basic Income.Karl Widerquist on the Alaska Permanent Fund. By Joerg Drescher (host), Basic Income Earth Network YouTube Channel, Dec 14, 2011

Four-part video interview by Joerg Drescher (host), Basic Income Earth Network YouTube Channel, December 16, 2011 Karl Widerquist on the APF (video interview).Karl Widerquist on the current crises and Basic Income (video interview)Karl Widerquist on steps to implement Basic Income.Karl Widerquist on the Alaska Permanent Fund. By Joerg Drescher (host), Basic Income Earth Network YouTube Channel, Dec 14, 2011

Karl Widerquist on Basic Income as human right (video interview)

Chad Hartman Interviews Karl Widerquist on Universal Basic Income (audio, 13:26), and (full show with interview beginning at 22:00 (audio, 35:35). By Chad Hartman on WCCO-AM
Reposted on YouTubeKarl Widerquist YouTube Channel (audio 13:26).

Four-part video interview by Joerg Drescher (host), Basic Income Earth Network YouTube Channel, December 16, 2011 Karl Widerquist on the APF (video interview).Karl Widerquist on the current crises and Basic Income (video interview)Karl Widerquist on steps to implement Basic Income.Karl Widerquist on the Alaska Permanent Fund. By Joerg Drescher (host), Basic Income Earth Network YouTube Channel, Dec 14, 2011

Part 3: Discussion Basic Income Over a Beer: Widerquist meets the New Orleans YangGangKarl Widerquist YouTube Channel, Nov 15, 2019 (Video 34:56)

ADI Policy Forum – Part Two of Five – The Future of Work and Basic Income Options for Australia, talk by Karl Widerquist, Alfred Deakin Institute YouTube Channel, September 10, 2017.

NABIG Conference – Tribute to Al Sheahan. By Karl Widerquist, Basic Income Canada Network YouTube Channel, July 15, 2014