One place I find it useful to start is with the one empirical attempt to actually try basic income, the Canadian Mincome Experiment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MINCOME" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MINCOME</a><p>The other direction is to look at today&#x27;s Social Security (basic income for the elderly) and attempt to extrapolate what&#x2F;how you would expand the program to cover every citizen. For instance, examining the impact of fixed incomes on the elderly versus the cost of living in various parts of the country and how the elderly today are already coping with such issues.<p>Another direction I&#x27;ve been trying to keep an eye on and follow as best I can is the discussions and work going on in (fringe) economics under the name &quot;Modern Monetary Theory&quot;:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modern_monetary_theory" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modern_monetary_theory</a>