{"id":204,"date":"2012-02-26T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/?p=204"},"modified":"2012-04-06T17:30:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:30:01","slug":"basic-income-several-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/2012\/02\/26\/basic-income-several-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"A basic income for all? Beyond utopia, the reality of several experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bastamag.net\/article2056.html\">paper<\/a> written for the french magazine <em>Basta!<\/em>, I review several experiments of implementations of a basic income scheme. These experiments provide a lot of interesting facts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The most famous is probably the <a href=\"http:\/\/bignam.org\">experiment of Namibia<\/a>, in the small village of Otjivero. This one has been reported especially in german newspapers such as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/spiegel\/print\/d-66360399.html\">Der Spiegel<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This experience was a success in reducing poverty, malnutrition, unemployment while it \u00a0increased school attendance, and global wealth creation.<\/p>\n<p>But others are mostly unknown. Among them, a very important one was implemented in Canada, from 1975 to 1979. Why important? First because unlike Namibia, Canada is a developed country, similar to France or UK. Second, because all the inhabitants of Dauphin (Canada) were part of the experiment : this was a &#8220;saturation&#8221; site. To summarize:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not only this experiment showed a small effect on work incentive (only mums and students left their jobs), there were less hospitalization work-related injuries and fewer visits from car accidents domestic abuse and mental health visits.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, students were more willing to pursue their studies beyond the 10th degree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As this short abstracts tells us, all the experiments around the World tend to contradict classical arguments against the basic income proposal.<\/p>\n<p>You can read my whole paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bastamag.net\/article2056.html\">here<\/a>\u00a0[french]. Another good read on the topic is this article of <em>The Dominion<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominionpaper.ca\/articles\/4100\">&#8220;A town without poverty&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper written for the french magazine Basta!, I review several experiments of implementations of a basic income scheme. These experiments provide a lot of interesting facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2om4O-3i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stanislasjourdan.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}