The photo of Götz Werner was taken by Enno Schmidt. The entrepreneur Götz Werner was the best-known and most influential proponent of the universal basic income in Germany since 2005. With him, the UBI became a topic in the media and in society. His presentation of...
Götz Werner and Adrienne Goehler, 1000€ für Jeden: Freiheit, Gleichheit, Grundeinkommen [€1000 for each person: freedom, equality, Basic Income] Ullstein, 2010, 267 pp, pbk, 978 3 548 37421 5, £6.56 It is unusual for us to review foreign language books in the...
Enno Schmidt, Götz Werner Chair (GWP) of Economic Policy and Constitutional Economic Theory at Germany's University of Frieburg, interviewed Karl Widerquist, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar, in October 2021. You can view the interview on YouTube...
9 February, 2022, 4pm-6pm:4:00pm-5:00pm – Louise Haagh: Developmental Freedom and Social Order5:00pm-6:00pm – Otto Lehto: Libertarian perspectives on Basic IncomeLivestream link: https://youtu.be/2SphVrI3QDQ Louise Haagh is professor of politics at...
Earlier this year we announced the publication of Adrienne Goehler's new book on Basic Income. The article appears below. An English translation is now available, which can be downloaded here. This new edition features additional material: an interview with Sarath...
BIEN 2022, Brisbane Maria Ozanira da Silva e SilvaTHE “BOLSA FAMÍLIA” PROGRAM AND THE “AUXÍLIO BRASIL” PROGRAM: advances and setbacks in the construction of a Basic Income in BrazilFernando FreitasCash transfer with social currency in Brazilian Cities: poverty...
From left to right: Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Beatrice Werner, Bernhard Neumärker, Asema Bahadori and Helena Steinhaus. The new Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) has been founded, at the University of Freiburg, on the 28th of October, 2019. A public...
Rebecca Panian The Swiss village of Rheinau is being targeted for a basic income experiment. The idea is being promoted and produced by the Dorf Testet Zukunft organization (Village of the Future Test). It started in 2016, through a popular initiative, and it...
Gabriele Von Moers, a German filmmaker, has released her movie Kann Mann Frau [Can Man Woman] with English subtitles. The release has also been accompaigned by a short two-minute trailer. This film is a first part of a larger 90-minute documentary focused on basic...
Friedrich Schneider, Professor of Economics in Linz (Austria), has presented a study on a potential Unconditional Basic Income in Austria. The study was initiated by the IWS Upper Austria (Initiative Standort Oberösterreich), an association that aims to promote Upper...
A new documentary on basic income — Free Lunch Society by Austrian director Christian Tod — premiered in Copenhagen’s Bremen Theatre on March 20, 2017, to a crowd numbering in the hundreds.
Austrian activist Helmo Pape has founded the initiative Generation Grundeinkommen (“Generation Basic Income”) to campaign for a basic income in Austria. The initiative will be launched at an event in Vienna on January 19, 2017.
Timotheus Höttges, CEO of the multibillion dollar telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, argues in favor of unconditional basic income in an interview in the German business newspaper Handelsblatt.
On December 1, 2016, the Volkswagen Foundation (VolkswagenStiftung) hosted a panel discussion on unconditional basic income in Hanover, Germany.
On November 20, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that Joe Kaeser, CEO of the multibillion-dollar engineering company Siemens AG, has demanded a basic income.
Original article published in SPREEZEITUNG, January 11th, 2016, written by Ursula Pidun. Translation by Jessica Rafka. Discussions about an unconditional basic income have been around for a while. But this topic is not picking up steam. What are the reasons for this,...
Austrian well-known entrepreneur Josef Zotter believes basic income would empower innovation and relieve people from existential fears.
[Michael Millar] A programme discussing Basic Income, with Götz Werner, DM drugstore founder, Daniel Häni, initiator of the Swiss Basic Income referendum, Dr. Verena Di Pasquale, The 2nd Chairman of the DGB Bavaria, Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Ruckriegel, economist and...
[Michael Millar] SUMMARY: The entrepreneur and owner of German drugstore DM, Götz Werner, talks about his wish for an unconditional basic income. Language: German Enita Vogel and Armin Müller, “Wirtschaft ist eine Kulturveranstaltung [Economy is a cultural event]”,...
What did I learn from this splendidly organized gathering of academic and activists from over thirty countries? As usual, many things. About people and about things. About facts and about dreams. I discovered, for example, that Götz Werner was perhaps even better at...