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This chapter defines and explains the workings of Universal Basic Income and its more easily testable cousin, the Negative Income Tax.
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The Basic Income Earth Network defined UBI this way at its 2016 meeting in an effort to reflect common usage.
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Widerquist, K. (2018). Universal Basic Income and Its More Testable Sibling, the Negative Income Tax. In: A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens. Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03849-6_2
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