Contact
- Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumärker
bernhard.neumaerker@vwl.uni-freiburg.de
Members
| Contact: | bernhard.neumaerker@vwl.uni-freiburg.de +49 (0)761 203 9456 |
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumärker (Director)
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Ana Palermo Kuss (PhD)
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Max Trommsdorff
 | Contact: | marcel.franke@vwl.uni-freiburg.de |
Thematic Overview
The Basic Income Research Group (BIRG) of the Department of Economic Policy and Constitutional Economic Theory analyses effects of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) on labor supply, voluntary work, and the society as a whole. One focus is on the ordopolitical development of a UBI and assessment of a social-contractarian legitimized UBI. Parts of the research is done within the SoCoLab and Basic Income Seminars. of the Department.
Main Resarch Areas
- Social-contractarian legitimization of a UBI
- Ordopolitical logic of a UBI
- Problems of time allocation and time souvereignity in the labor-leisure model and its switches throuch income changes
- Voluntary work and its relation towards a UBI
- Basic Income and altruism
- Participative and non-participative versions of a UBI
Relevant Publications:(coming soon)
Links (German)
www.pr.uni-freiburg.de/pm/expertendienst/modell-fuer-menschenwuerde
Articles
https://www.ndr.de/themenwoche/gerechtigkeit/Bedingungsloses-Grundeinkommen-Finanzierung,grundeinkommen132.html
https://www.ard.de/home/themenwoche/ARD_Themenwoche_2018___Gerechtigkeit/4954764/index.html