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Comment by 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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(2016)
2y ago
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Verification History
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.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 5d ago
replying to Christopher Pissarides