Extract: Since his reelection in 2018, most analysts argue Putin has focused primarily on internal affairs. He has pushed the Russian government on a spending spree, with a greater focus on infrastructure. However, allocating public money into what Putin calls National Projects includes several downsides. Such massive infrastructure projects take…

Basic Income could be indexed to age, replacing both child support and retirement pensions. Some of the main questions that arise with designing a Basic Income model include its total cost and deciding at what age people would start receiving it (i.e., its universality). Basic Income is both expensive and…

Despite various reports, the Finnish Basic Income experiment was not a failure. Nonetheless, the government should learn from it to improve its future Negative Income Tax experiment. In 2018, when the previous Finnish government decided not to extend its Basic Income (BI) trial, journalists were quick to out the experiment…

Nordic liberals are taking inspiration from Singapore in a new welfare model named the life account. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a hot topic. There is no shortage of articles analyzing it from different angles, but reasonable alternative reform options are hard to find. Despite being a UBI variant, the…

More details on the Alternative Social Guarantee, an ambitious welfare reform idea among many others The Alternative Social Guarantee (ASG), presented in an earlier article, is a two-level safety net idea consisting of a combination of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a first level, and a Job Guarantee (JG) as…

A series of articles about how disruptive technologies can help improve public services Through the centuries, we have seen trust shifting. People used to trade directly with each other before the industrial revolution; trust shifted to enterprises and other third parties afterwards. Eventually, with the rise of technology, companies such…

Why the market economy might need a parallel social economy to subsist We have all heard about the promises of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Still, if predictions hold and automation will inevitably lead to mass unemployment, UBI will not solve the problem of keeping people active, giving them a sense…