Historical advocates
Thomas Paine, a philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, advocated a capital grant and an unconditional citizen’s pension in his 1797 pamphlet Agrarian Justice.
Buckminster Fuller, architect
Bertrand Russell, philosopher
Thomas Spence was apparently the first to layout in full what is now called a universal basic income.
Henry George American economist advocated for a citizen’s dividend paid for by a land tax in 1871 and in his 1885 speech “The Crime of Poverty”.
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.
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.
Milton Friedman American economist 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil rights leader 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.
George McGovern U.S. Senator sponsored a bill proposed by the National Welfare Rights Organization to enact a $6,500 guaranteed minimum income,[63] 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.
United States and Canada
Peter Barnes, entrepreneur and environmentalist
Keith Ellison, U.S. Congressman and DNC Deputy Chair
Milton Friedman, prominent economist and Nobel laureate.
James Baker, former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Peter Diamond, 2010 Economics Nobel Prize winner
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter
Martin Feldstein, former Chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers
Barack Obama, former U.S. president
Henry Paulson, former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
Greg Mankiw, former Chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers
George P. Shultz, former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Ted Halstead, policy entrepreneur
Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder
Erik Olin Wright,[28] Marxist sociologist
Carole Pateman, feminist and political theorist
Tim Draper
Sam Altman, Y Combinator president
Chris Hughes, Facebook cofounder
Dan Savage, LGBT activist
Charles Murray, libertarian political scientist
Bill Gross, financial manager
Robin Chase, Zipcar cofounder
Andy Stern, former Service Employees International Union president
Elon Musk, business magnate
Ryan Holmes, Hootsuite CEO
Paul Vallée, Pythian Group CEO
Guy Caron, NDP leadership candidate, economist, and MP.]
Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary
Don Iveson, Mayor of EdmontonRobson Walton, former Walmart Chairman
Andrew Yang, founder of Venture for America, and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook
Europe
Philippe Van Parijs
Ailsa McKay
André Gorz
Antonio Negri
Osmo Soininvaara
Guy Standing
Benoit Hamon, candidate for President of France in 2017
Susanne Wiest, Germany
Dieter Althaus, CDU, Germany
Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece
Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor
Christopher A. Pissarides, 2010 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
Angus Deaton, 2015 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
Björn Wahlroos, Finnish billionaire
Timotheus Höttges
Götz Werner
Jonathan Reynolds
Julen Bollain, Spanish economist, politician, and Basic Income researcher
Rutger Bregman
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