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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 and Ian Almond “Why do US universities tolerate debt bondage on their Qatar campuses?” Times Higher Education, February 21, 2024.
• Universal Basic Income: Essential Knowledge (2024)
• Georg Arndt and Karl Widerquist, 2020, “The Cost of Basic Income in the United Kingdom: A Microsimulation Analysis,” Discussion paper.
• 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
• 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
• Karl Widerquist, 2019, “The Negative Income Tax Experiments of the 1970s,” the Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income. Malcolm Torry (editor). New York: Palgrave-Macmillan
• Karl Widerquist, 2019, “Three Waves of Basic Income Support,” the Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income. Malcolm Torry (editor). New York: Palgrave-Macmillan
• Karl Widerquist, “Basic Income’s Third Wave,” OpenDemocracy, October 18, 2017
• Karl Widerquist, 2017, “The Cost of Basic Income: Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations,” Basic Income Studies 12 (2), December
• 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, “The Alaska Model: a citizen’s income in practice,” Our Kingdom, Democratic Wealth: building a citizens’ economy. 24 April 2013
• 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 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. “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 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 “How Alaska Can Avoid the Third-Stage Resource Curse,” the Alaska Dispatch, February 27, 2012
• 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. “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 2011 “Review Essay: Two Memoirs Tell the History of the Alaska Dividend,” Citizens Income Newsletter (1)
• Karl Widerquist “Viewpoint: Lessons of the Alaska Dividend,” Citizens Income Newsletter, Issue 3, 2010
• 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, 2008. “Review of The Failed Welfare Revolution: America’s Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy, Brian Steensland,” Citizens Income Newsletter (1)
• Karl Widerquist “Re-Reading Keynes: Economic Possibilities of Our Grandparents” Dissent, Winter 2006
• 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, 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
• 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 “The Money-Making Ethic,” Chronogram Magazine, New Paltz, NY, January 1999
• Karl Widerquist “Blaming the Worker,” Chronogram Magazine, January 1998

Audio-Video

YouTube channel playlist of me discussing US Politics on Al-Jazeera

Links to Audio-Video

• Widerquist: Republicans Smell Victory (video interview). Interview by Joumanna Berchteche, Bloomberg Daybreak: Horizons Middle East and Africa, Bloomberg TV: Middle East and Africa, July 18th, 2024.
• FOX LiveNOW – Karl Widerquist (video interview), By Fox News TV, July 21, 2024
• Kamala Harris has supported affordable housing in the past. This refloated policy might benefit renters (video interview). By Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, July 25 2024
• Building the middle class may be a ‘defining goal’ under a Harris presidency — how that may shape a key tax credit (video interiew). By Jessica Dickler, CNBC, July 26, 2024.
• Understanding Universal Basic Income with Karl Widerquist (video interview). By Ching Juhl, Juhl Media [YouTube Channel], October 23, 2024
• Dr. Karl Widerquist says we need Universal Basic Income now (video interview). By Dr. Al Scott, The Rational View, Aug 11, 2024
• The New Abnormal [podcast] (audio interview). By Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy, iHeart Radio, June 25, 2024 (Widerquist interview begins at 35:43).
• “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.
• 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.
• 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 YouTube, Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel (audio 13:26).

• A Conversation with Income Movement Leaders. Hosted by Ching Juhl, with panelists: Michael Lewis, Diane Pagen, and Karl Widerquist. Streamed live on Sep 15, 2020
• 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
• Universal Basic Income and the Coronavirus Crisis (video interview of Karl Widerquist). By Fabian Wendt, PPE in the Time of Pandemic series by the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, April 17th, 2020
  • Reposted on YouTube as “Universal Basic Income” by UNC-Chapel Hill (audio 58:40)
  • Reposted on YouTube as “Universal Basic Income and the Coronavirus Crisis.” Karl Widerquist’s YouTube Channel (audio, 58:41)

• The Dan Schneider Video Interview #259: Universal Basic Income: Karl Widerquist, by Dan Schneider (host) interviewing Karl Widerquist, Cosmoetica, Feb 20, 2019
• UBI March – NYC – October 26, 2019 (video). By Juhl Media. Posted October 28, 2019.
• 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.

• Will the midterm results affect Trump’s foreign policy? (Video 24:30). Panel Discussion with Mohammed Jamjoom (host) and Karl Widerquist, Eli Clifton, and Rami G. Khouri (panelists), Inside Story, Al-Jazeera, 8 Nov 2018
• Al Jazeera interviews Karl Widerquist about wealth inequality (video 3:15), Al-Jazeera (reposted on Karl Widerquist’s YouTube Channel), originally broadcast live January 26, 2018.
• The Newsmakers: Is veganism eco-friendly and Poverty in the US (Interview of Karl Widerquist), by Imran Garda, The News Makers on TRT World YouTube Channel, November 3, 2016.
• Al Jazeera interviews Karl Widerquist, previewing Trump-era U.S. politics, (part 2 of 2) (video 4:08). By Al Jazeera (reproduced on Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel), November 9, 2016.
• Al Jazeera interviews Karl Widerquist previews Trump-era politics (part 1 of 2) (video 6:42). By Al-Jazeera (reposted on Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel), November 9, 2016
• Al Jazeera interviews Karl Widerquist on election day: 3rd of 3 (video 4:45). By Al Jazeera, Karl Widerquist’s YouTube Channel, November 8, 2016.
• Al Jazeera interviews Karl Widerquist on election day: 2nd of 3 (video 3:31). By Al Jazeera, Karl Widerquist’s YouTube Channel, November 8, 2016.
• Al Jazeera interviews Karl Widerquist on election day: 1st of 3 (video 6:22). By Al Jazeera, Karl Widerquist’s YouTube Channel, November 8, 2016.
• Al Jazeera Interviews Karl Widerquist on the U.S. Election 05 Nov 2016 (video 5:00). By Al Jazeera,Karl Widerquist’s YouTube Channel, November 6, 2016.
• Al Jazeera interviews Karl Widerquist on the reopening of Clinton email Investigation. By Al Jazeera(reposted on Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel), October 31, 2016.
• Four-part video interview by Joerg Drescher (host), Basic Income Earth Network YouTube Channel, December 16, 2011
  • Karl Widerquist on the current crises and Basic Income (video interview).
  • Karl Widerquist on Basic Income as human right (video interview).
  • Karl Widerquist on the APF (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