About this Journal
Basic Income Studies is the first peer-reviewed journal devoted to basic income and related issues of poverty relief and universal welfare. An exciting venture supported by major international networks of scholars, policy makers, and activists, Basic Income Studies is the only forum for scholarly research on this leading edge movement in contemporary social policy. Articles discuss the design and implementation of basic income schemes, and address the theory and practice of universal welfare in clear, non-technical language that engages the wider policy community. The journal's editors represent the forefront of research in poverty, political theory, welfare reform, ethics, and public finance, at institutions such as the University of Amsterdam, Columbia University, the University of Buenos Aires, UCLA, the London School of Economics, and the Spanish Ministry of Public Affairs.
BIS Sponsors
BIS is sponsored by the Spanish basic income network, Red Renta Básica (RRB), the Spanish Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (IEF), and the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), and supported by the US Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG). BIS gratefully acknowledges the support of these organisations and their members.
Publication History
Two issues/year
Content available since 2006 (Volume 1, Issue 1)
ISSN: 1932-0183
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Indexed in
- EconLit
- Intute
- RePEc
- Sociological Abstracts
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What scholars are saying about Basic Income Studies
The proposal of an unconditional basic income is a simple idea that is at the core of radical thinking about poverty and unemployment, social justice and social cohesion in a wide variety of countries, and increasingly throughout the world. BIS's ambition is to stimulate and disseminate rigorous, undogmatic discussion about this and related ideas. The young international and interdisciplinary team that launched the project is well equipped to live up to this ambition.
Philippe Van Parijs, Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale, Université Catholique de Louvain and Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Basic Income is on the cusp of becoming a veritable social movement, with this journal serving as its intellectual wing. It will serve as an important source of information about the movement for outsiders, and as an important venue for key debates within the movement. I will be watching its development over the coming years with the keenest of interest.
Robert E. Goodin, Joint Professor of Social and Political Theory and Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
Basic Income Studies will help bring what is an already flourishing debate to the attention of a larger number of scholars, and help develop, sharpen and clarify the issues for all those involved in universities, policy arenas and in the growing grass roots campaigns in a wide variety of countries. The editors deserve thanks for their very welcome initiative.
Carole Pateman, Professor of Political Science. Department of Political Science, University of California, USA
Basic Income Studies provides an innovative and valuable venue for research on one of the most vital and intractable social problems facing the discipline of economics and the social sciences in general.
Douglas Bowles, Professor of Economics and Director of the Social Science Consortium, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Basic Income Studies covers cutting edge research in an area of social justice that is central to my research.
Darrel Moellendorf, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs, San Diego State University