Friedrich Hayek is known for his defense of limited government and a free-market economy. But Hayek was also a consistent defender throughout his life of something that looks very much like a Universal Basic Income (UBI). To many, this combination of views will seem paradoxical. The purpose of...

This paper investigates whether individuals might voluntarily join and re-main members of a state in which high levels of social insurance are pro-vided. That is to say, are there plausible circumstances in which a social welfare state can be regarded as "liberal" in the sense that it has the...

Inspired by Fröhlich and Oppenheimer (1990), an experimental survey in the lab was designed to find out if preferences for three different redistribution schemes differ under a veil of ignorance. The three schemes are a stylized version of the status quo German welfare state (A), a control...