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Opposed: The Centralized Control Conceit

In: Debating Universal Basic Income

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  • Robert E. Wright

    (American Institute for Economic Research)

  • Aleksandra Przegalińska

    (Kozminski University)

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Climate change might be occurring, but it is not a threat to human beings, let alone the planet. Like AI, it has been hyped to sell product. Even if it is real, and an existential threat, however, does not mean that top-down government plans, like UBI and carbon taxes, can do anything to slow it. Planners do not have enough of the right type of information at the right time to be able to move natural systems, like the earth’s climate or the economy, into channels of their own choosing. The environmental Kuznets curve is real, so the way to improve the environment is through economic growth.

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  • Robert E. Wright & Aleksandra Przegalińska, 2022. "Opposed: The Centralized Control Conceit," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Debating Universal Basic Income, chapter 0, pages 63-68, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-031-17513-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17513-8_7
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