Free Money For All? Can a universal basic income work?

Who wants free money from the government? Even the most red-blooded free marketeer would surely find it hard to walk past €8,000, delivered in tidy monthly installments into your bank account, courtesy of the Department of Social Protection.

And what if, as an added bonus, this free money cleaned up decades of inertia and bureaucracy? Instead of a byzantine welfare and unemployment benefit system of transfers, allowances, supplements and income thresholds, everyone - ...