List of advocates of basic income

Main article: Social:Basic income

This is a list of notable persons or organizations that have articles on Wikipedia and are advocates of basic income.

## Contents

* 1 Europe
* 2 United States and Canada
* 3 Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania
* 4 Historical advocates
* 5 References

## Europe

* Philippe Van Parijs,[1]
* Ailsa McKay,[2]
* André Gorz,[3]
* Antonio Negri,[4]
* Osmo Soininvaara,[5]
* Guy Standing[6][7]
* Susanne Wiest, Germany
* Dieter Althaus, CDU, Germany[8]
* Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece[9]
* Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor[10]
* Christopher A. Pissarides, 2010 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics[11]
* Angus Deaton, 2015 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics[12]
* Björn Wahlroos, Finnish billionaire[13]
* Timotheus Höttges [14]
* Götz Werner,[15]
* Jonathan Reynolds[16]
* Benoit Hamon[17]
* Daniel Raventós, Professor at the University of Barcelona and chairman of the Spanish Basic Income Network Red Renta Basica.
* Julen Bollain, Spanish economist, politician and Basic Income researcher

## United States and Canada

* Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook[18][19]
* Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor[20]
* James Baker, former U.S. Treasury Secretary[21]
* Martin Feldstein, former Chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers[21]
* Henry Paulson, former U.S. Treasury Secretary[21]
* Greg Mankiw, former Chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers[21]
* George P. Shultz, former U.S. Treasury Secretary[21]
* Ted Halstead, policy entrepreneur[21]
* S. Robson Walton, former Walmart Chairman[21]
* Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder[22]
* Marxist sociologist Erik Olin Wright,[23]
* Carole Pateman, feminist and political theorist[24]
* Tim Draper[25]
* Sam Altman, Y Combinator president[26]
* Chris Hughes, Facebook cofounder [27]
* Dan Savage, LGBT activist[28]
* Charles Murray, libertarian political scientist[29][30]
* Bill Gross, financial manager[31]
* Robin Chase, Zipcar cofounder[32]
* Peter Barnes, entrepreneur and environmentalist[33][34]
* Andy Stern, former Service Employees International Union president[35]
* Elon Musk, business magnate[36]
* Ryan Holmes, Hootsuite CEO[37]
* Paul Vallée, Pythian Group CEO[38]
* Guy Caron, NDP leadership candidate, economist, and MP.[39]
* Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary[40]
* Don Iveson, Mayor of Edmonton[40]
* Keith Ellison, U.S. Congressman and DNC Deputy Chair[41]
* Andrew Yang, Democractic presidential candidate for 2020[42]

## Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania

* Eduardo Suplicy, Brazil[43]
* Varun Gandhi, Indian Member of Parliament[44]
* Arvind Subramanian, present economic adviser in India[45]
* Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, South Africa[46]
* Gareth Morgan, economist, New Zealand[47]
* Andrew Little, Labour Party leader, New Zealand.[48]
* Ricardo Anaya Cortés, Presidential candidate, Mexico.[49]

## Historical advocates

* Thomas Paine, a philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, advocated a capital grant and an unconditional citizens pension in his 1797 pamphlet Agrarian Justice.[50]
* Thomas Spence was apparently the first to layout in full what is now called a universal basic income.[51]
* American economist Henry George advocated for a citizen's dividend paid for by a land tax in 1871 and in his 1885 speech "The Crime of Poverty".[52][53]
* Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek advocated a guaranteed minimum income in his 1944 book The Road to Serfdom, and reiterated his support in his 1973 book Law, Legislation and Liberty.[54][55]
* American economists James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, and John Kenneth Galbraith signed a document with 1,200 other economists in 1968 calling for the 90th U.S. Congress to introduce in that year a system of income guarantees and supplements.[56]
* American economist Milton Friedman advocated a basic income in the form of a negative income tax in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, and again in his 1980 book Free to Choose.[57][58]
* Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. endorsed it under the name of "the guaranteed income" in his 1967 book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? shortly before his assassination.[59][60]
* U.S. Senator George McGovern from South Dakota sponsored a bill proposed by the National Welfare Rights Organization to enact a $6,500 guaranteed minimum income,[61] and in his 1972 presidential campaign, proposed replacing the personal income tax exemption with a $1,000 tax credit as a minimum-income floor for every citizen.[62]

## References

1. ↑ Van Parijs, Philippe (ed.). "Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform", London: Verso, 1992
2. ↑ Ailsa McKay, "Why a citizens' basic income? A question of gender equality or gender bias", Work Employment & Society, June 2007, vol. 21 no. 2, pp. 337–348
3. ↑ "Critique of Economic Reason", André Gorz, in: Peter Waterman, Ronaldo Munck, "Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order", Macmillan, London, 1999
4. ↑ "Empire". http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/negri/HAREMI_printable.pdf. Michael Hardt – Italian Marxist sociologist Antonio Negri, "Empire", Harvard University Press, 2000, p. 403
5. ↑ Osmo Soininvaara, "Hyvinvointivaltion eloonjäämisoppi" (A survival doctrine for the welfare state), Juva, WSOY, 1994, 298 p, ISBN 951-0-20100-6
6. ↑ Guy Standing and Michael Samson (eds.), "A Basic Income Grant for South Africa", University of Cape Town Press, Cape Town, 2003
7. ↑ Standing, Guy (ed.). "Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe and North America", Anthem Press, London, 2005
8. ↑ Koch, Hannes (2006-10-25). "800 Euro für jeden? CDUler findet’s gut" (in de). http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archivseite&dig=2006/10/25/a0070. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
9. ↑ "Transcript: Interview with Yanis Varoufakis". The Economist. 31 March 2016. http://www.economist.com/ESDvaroufakis. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
10. ↑ Weller, Chris (31 May 2016). "Here's why the inventor of the Internet supports basic income". Axel Springer SE. http://www.techinsider.io/tim-berners-lee-supports-basic-income-2016-5.
11. ↑ "Basic Income at the World Economic Forum of Davos". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmumRUGXQhQ.
12. ↑ Weller, Chris (18 May 2016). "A Nobel Prize winner in economics just backed basic income". Axel Springer SE. http://www.techinsider.io/basic-income-gets-nobel-prize-winners-approval-2016-5.
13. ↑ Cord, David J. (17 July 2014). "Is Finland ready for a basic income?". Helsinki Times. Dream Catcher Oy. http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/11243-is-finland-ready-for-a-basic-income-2.html.
14. ↑ "Der Unterschied zwischen Mensch und Computer wird in Kürze aufgehoben sein". http://www.zeit.de/2016/01/zukunftsvisionen-timotheus-hoettges-roboter-technik/komplettansicht.
15. ↑ "Götz Werner – 1000 Euro für Jeden (Freiheit Gleichheit Grundeinkommen)". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrWTE0yeVo8.
16. ↑ "How I learnt to stop worrying and love Basic Income". http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/welfare/2016/02/how-i-learnt-stop-worrying-and-love-basic-income.
17. ↑ "Le Revenu Universel". https://www.benoithamon2017.fr/rue/.
18. ↑ "Mark Zuckerberg supports universal basic income. What is it?". http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/26/news/economy/mark-zuckerberg-universal-basic-income/index.html.
19. ↑ "US: Mark Zuckerberg recommends "exploring" UBI at Harvard graduation speech". http://basicincome.org/news/2017/05/us-mark-zuckerberg-recommends-exploring-universal-basic-income-harvard-graduation-speech/.
20. ↑ "How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers' Lives Hell". http://robertreich.org/post/116924386855.
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 Baker III, James A.; Feldstein, Martin S.; Halstead, Ted; Mankiw, N. Gregory; Paulson Jr., Henry M.; Shultz, George P.; Stephenson, Thomas; Walton, Rob (February 2017). ﻿The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends﻿ (Report). Climate Leadership Council. https://www.clcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/TheConservativeCaseforCarbonDividends.pdf. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
22. ↑ "The Billionaire Founder of eBay Plans to Give Thousands of Kenyans Free Income for 12 Years". http://time.com/money/4669226/the-billionaire-founder-of-ebay-plans-to-give-thousands-of-kenyans-free-income-for-12-years.
23. ↑ "Basic Income as a Socialist Project". http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Published writing/paper for basic income studies.pdf.
24. ↑ "Securing women's citizenship: Indifference and other obstacles – Carole Pateman". http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-03-07-pateman-en.html.
25. ↑ Carson, Biz. "The billionaire who wanted to split California into 6 states now has a crazy plan to give everyone $15,000". http://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capitalist-tim-draper-wants-to-give-everyone-15000-2016-2.
26. ↑ Altman, Sam. "Technology and wealth inequality". http://blog.samaltman.com/technology-and-wealth-inequality.
27. ↑ "VIDEO: Basic Income debated on CNN (Chris Hughes & Eduardo Porter)". 2016-10-31. http://basicincome.org/news/2016/10/basic-income-debated-cnn-chris-hughes-eduardo-porter/.
28. ↑ "Joe Rogan and Dan Savage discuss a guaranteed minimum income". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz_X1HqmxZ0.
29. ↑ Murray, Charles (2016) [2006], In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (Revised and updated ed.), Washington, DC: AEI Press, ISBN 978-1-4422-6071-9
30. ↑ "Book review: In our hands: A plan to replace the welfare state by Charles Murray" (PDF). Conallboyle.com. February 2007. http://www.conallboyle.com/BasicIncomeNewEcon/MurrayReview.pdf. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
31. ↑ "Comrade Bill Gross Says the Federal Reserve Should Pay Your Rent". http://fortune.com/2016/05/05/bill-gross-universal-income/.
32. ↑ "Startup CEO Loves Tech but Fears Millions Will Be Jobless". http://fortune.com/2015/11/14/zipcar-co-founder-tech-basic-income/.
33. ↑ "Can Basic Income Come to America?". https://medium.com/@peterbarn/can-basic-income-come-to-america-9291569e2963#.27b2915nj.
34. ↑ Barnes, Peter (2014). With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough. San Francisco: Berret-Koehler Publishers. ISBN 978-1-62656-214-1.
35. ↑ "A universal basic income is an old idea with modern appeal". http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a9758f1a-e9c0-11e5-888e-2eadd5fbc4a4,Authorised=false.html?siteedition=intl&_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fa9758f1a-e9c0-11e5-888e-2eadd5fbc4a4.html%3Fsiteedition%3Dintl&_i_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F6666cd76f96956469e7be39d750cc7d9&classification;=conditional_standard&iab;=barrier-app#axzz47iwNQoY4.
36. ↑ Strange, Adario (2016-11-05). "Elon Musk thinks universal income is answer to automation taking human jobs". http://mashable.com/2016/11/05/elon-musk-universal-basic-income/. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
37. ↑ "How To Plan Now For Tomorrow's Robotic Workforce". http://www.fastcompany.com/3050757/the-future-of-work/how-to-plan-now-for-tomorrows-robotic-workforce.
38. ↑ "Paul Vallée – The Boundary Breaker". http://indvstrvs.com/paul-vallee-the-boundary-breaker/.
39. ↑ "Quebec’s Guy Caron seeking NDP leadership". http://globalnews.ca/news/3275419/guy-caron-announces-ndp-leadership-bid-promises-basic-income/.
40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 "Alberta mayors back guaranteed minimum income". 2016-06-05. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/05/alberta-mayors-stick-back-guaranteed-minimum-income.html.
41. ↑ Coelho, Andre (26 August 2017). "Member of Congress from Minnesota Keith Ellison endorses Basic Income". Basic Income Earth Network. http://basicincome.org/news/2017/08/united-states-member-congress-minnesota-keith-ellison-endorses-basic-income/. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
42. ↑ "What is UBI". 2018-09-03. https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-ubi/.
43. ↑ "Citizen's Basic Income: The Answer is Blowing in Wind" DOC, Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy, USBIG 5th Congress, 2006
44. ↑ "Why we need to talk about a basic income". http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/policy-watch-why-we-need-to-talk-about-a-basic-income/article8788880.ece.
45. ↑ "Economic Survey -Volume I". http://www.indiabudget.nic.in/e_survey.asp.
46. ↑ "Archbishop Tutu on Basic Income". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf3n-L5FDy0.
47. ↑ "Turning tax and welfare in New Zealand on its head". Big Kahuna. 2011. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130811200007/http://bigkahunabook.co.nz/universal-basic-income.aspx. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
48. ↑ "New Zealand is debating a plan to give people free money, no strings attached". http://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-talks-hit-new-zealand-2016-3.
49. ↑ "Ricardo Anaya, Mexico’s young hopeful". https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21737291-modernising-presidential-candidate-has-best-chance-defeating-left-wing.
50. ↑ Paine, Thomas (1895). "XXVIII. Agrarian Justice". in Conway, Moncure Daniel. The Writings of Thomas Paine. III. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31271/31271-h/31271-h.htm#link2H_4_0029.
51. ↑ "Two arguments for Basic Income: Thomas Paine (1737–1809) and Thomas Spence (1750–1814)". https://www.academia.edu/2698139/Two_arguments_for_Basic_Income_Thomas_Paine_1737-1809_and_Thomas_Spence_1750-1814_.
52. ↑ George, Henry (April 1, 1885). The Crime of Poverty (PDF) (Speech). history.msu.edu. Burlington, Iowa: Michigan State University. Retrieved March 23, 2018. "As an English friend of mine puts it: No taxes and a pension for everybody; and why should it not be? To take land values for public purposes is not really to impose a tax, but to take for public purposes a value created by the community. And out of the fund which would thus accrue from the common property, we might, without degradation to anybody, provide enough to actually secure from want all who were deprived of their natural protectors or met with accident, or any man who should grow so old that he could not work. All prating that is heard from some quarters about its hurting the common people to give them what they do not work for is humbug. The truth is, that anything that injures self-respect, degrades, does harm; but if you give it as a right, as something to which every citizen is entitled to, it does not degrade. Charity schools do degrade children that are sent to them, but public schools do not."
53. ↑ George, Henry (1871). Our Land and Land Policy, National and State. White & Bauer [etc.]. p. 230. ISBN 9781230444703. https://archive.org/details/ourlandandlandp00georgoog.
54. ↑ Hayek, Friedrich (2007) [1944], Caldwell, Bruce, ed., The Road to Serfdom (Definitive ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 147–48, ISBN 978-0-226-32055-7
55. ↑ Hayek, Friedrich (1976), Law, Legislation and Liberty, 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 87, ISBN 978-0-226-32083-0
56. ↑ Economists' Statement on Guaranteed Annual Income, 1/15/1968-4/18/1969 folder, General Correspondence Series, Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Cited in: Jyotsna Sreenivasan, "Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia." (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009), page 269
57. ↑ Friedman, Milton (2002) [1962], Capitalism and Freedom (40th anniversary ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 190–195, ISBN 978-0-226-26421-9
58. ↑ Friedman, Milton; Friedman, Rose (1990) [1980], Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (1st Harvest ed.), New York City: Harcourt, pp. 119–124, ISBN 978-0-156-33460-0
59. ↑ King, Martin Luther (2010) [1967]. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?. Boston: Beacon Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-807-00067-0. http://discuss.forumias.com/uploads/FileUpload/b2/8d3ff69fb83ece167b041de3eb3a2a.pdf.
60. ↑ Weissmann, Jordan (August 28, 2013). "Martin Luther King's Economic Dream: A Guaranteed Income for All Americans". The Atlantic. Emerson Collective. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/martin-luther-kings-economic-dream-a-guaranteed-income-for-all-americans/279147/.
61. ↑ White, Theodore H. (1973). The Making of the President 1972. Atheneum Books. p. 190. ISBN 0-689-10553-3.
62. ↑ White, Theodore H. (1973). The Making of the President 1972. Atheneum Books. p. 125. ISBN 0-689-10553-3.

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