Christopher Pissarides on Implement a universal basic income

Christopher Pissarides

Nobel Prize winner in Economics

I am very much in favour, as long as we know how to apply it without taking away incentive to work at the lower end of the market.

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Implement a universal basic income

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AI Verified Verified relevant. Pissarides says he is very much in favour of UBI provided it is applied without destroying work incentives, supporting the policy in principle. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago

AI Unverifiable The quote expresses conditional support for "it," but without explicit mention of universal basic income, there is not enough evidence that it is specifically about implementing a universal basic income as a whole. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Verified Verified for. Pissarides explicitly says he is very much in favour of UBI, with an implementation caveat. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The supplied URL does contain this wording and attributes it to Christopher Pissarides. In the BIEN article, Toru Yamamori writes that Pissarides "said" it at the World Economic Forum session on 20 January 2016, and notes the passage was transcribed from the video. Your quote matches the latter part of that sentence verbatim, but it omits an opening clause about "having a universal minimum income"; so it is a genuine excerpt rather than the full sentence. The WEF page confirms the Davos session "A World without Work?" on 20–23 January 2016. ([basicincome.org](https://basicincome.org/news/2016/02/international-christopher-pissarides-a-nobel-economist-argues-for-ubi-at-a-debate-in-davos/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

AI Verified Verified the quote from Christopher Pissarides about UBI. The source URL (basicincome.org) returned 403 via WebFetch, but a web search confirmed the quote exists on that page and matches the context. The original quote from Davos 2016 is: "Now, having a universal minimum income is one of those ways, in fact, it is one I am very much in favor of, as long as we know how to apply it without taking away incentive to work at the lower end of the market." The stored version is a close excerpt/paraphrase. The statement is about "Implement a universal basic income" and the vote "for" aligns correctly with Pissarides' clearly pro-UBI stance. Updated year to 2016 (from null) to reflect the Davos 2016 source. Could not find a more recent explicit UBI statement from Pissarides in 2025/2026; his recent work focuses on AI/labour markets but doesn't contain a newer equivalent quote on UBI. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 5mo ago

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