David Calnitsky
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario specializing in social policy, poverty, and sociological theory, with empirical work on basic income, welfare states, and social change.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 1h 11min
#1228 David Calnitsky: Basic Income, Poverty, and Socialism
David Calnitsky, an Associate Professor of Sociology studying poverty and basic income, explains what basic income is and how different variants work. He discusses evidence from experiments, effects on work, wages, poverty, and domestic violence. He also contrasts individualist and structural views of poverty and outlines institutional definitions of socialism and gradual policy paths toward it.
