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Karl Widerquist, 2023. The Problem of Property: Taking the Freedom of Nonowners Seriously
Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall, 2021. The Prehistory of Private Property: Implications for Modern Political Theory , Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (317 pages)
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, 2020Karl Widerquist, “End the Threat of Economic Destitution Now ,” Open Democracy , 17 September 2019
Karl Widerquist and Grant McCall, 2017. Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy
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, 2013Karl Widerquist, March 2013. Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No . New York: Palgrave Macmillan (241 pages)
Karl Widerquist, 2013. “Reciprocity and Exploitation,” in Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research
Status Freedom . PowerPoint presentation by Karl Widerquist. Set to music by Robin Ketelaars. Robin Ketelaars YouTube Channel, September 21, 2012Karl Widerquist, 2010. “Lockean Theories of Property: Justifications for Unilateral Appropriation ,” Public Reason 2 (3): 3-26
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, 2006. Property and the Power to Say No: A Freedom-Based Argument For Basic Income Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income The Problem of Property
Karl Widerquist, 2006. “Who Exploits Who? ” Political Studies 54 (3): 444-464
Karl Widerquist, 2005. “Review of Libertarianism Without Inequality by Michael Otsuka ,” the Citizens Income Newsletter (1)
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, 2004. “Review of Work Behavior of the World’s Poor: Theory Evidence and Policy , Mohammed Sharif ,” the Citizens Income Newsletter (1)
Karl Widerquist “The Basic Income Guarantee ,” Synthesis/Regeneration 26, Fall 2001
Karl Widerquist, 1999. “Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income ” Politics and Society , 33 (3): 386-401
Karl Widerquist “Blaming the Worker ,” Chronogram Magazine , January 1998
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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, 2022Should 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, 2022UBI and the Dignity of Work . By Techopian Team, Techopian , August 3, 2021‘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 2020Elms College Humanities Lecture: “Freedom, Basic Income, and the Abolition of Poverty” . By Karl Widerquist, ElmsCollegeVideo , YouTube , posted November 18, 2019 (recorded October 28, 2019)The Power to Say No and American Social Policy (video) , 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, 2019My own private basic income ,” OpenDemocracy , June 2, 2017, available as audio on YouTube .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
