British journalist and broadcaster Paul Mason, author of Post-Capitalism: A Guide to Our Future, recently delivered a lecture in Amsterdam in which he points out the need for a universal basic income as a partial solution to changes in the economy due to new technologies.
Leeds, United Kingdom: Readers’ meeting on Paul Mason’s ‘Postcapitalism’, 16 Nov 2015
Leeds Taking Soundings Readers’ Meetings The date: Monday, November 16th (2015) The time:6PM The venue: Broadcasting...
LONDON, United Kingdom: Postcapitalism: Paul Mason Lecture, 18 November 2015
Postcapitalism: Paul Mason Lecture The date: 18 November 2015 The time: 6.30-8pm The Venue: Old Theatre, LSE Campus,...
Bristol Festival of Ideas: 6 October conference on Basic Income
On Wednesday 6 October 2021, the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, and Bristol Ideas are running...
Karl Widerquist’s list of Media Appearances
On this page, I attempt to keep an updated list of media appearances, big or small; basic income related or not;...
LINK: Tom Minogue Hastings website
Tom Minogue Hastings. Credit to: Free Folk University Tom Minogue Hastings has been promoting Universal Basic...
NEW BOOK: Guy Standing, Basic Income: And How We Can Make it Happen
BIEN co-founder Guy Standing’s latest book, Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen, will be available in May 2017, published by Pelican Books.
“Can Less Work be More Fair?” – Report from Australia’s Green Institute
The Green Institute, an Australian non-profit organization devoted to education and action concerning green politics, has published a collection of essays on the ideas of universal basic income and a shorter working week (Can Less Work Be More Fair?, December 2016).
LEEDS, United Kingdom: Post-Capitalism 2015, 6 November 2015
Post-Capitalism 2015: Paul Mason Talk and Film Screening of Boom Bust Boom with a Producer Q&A The date: 6...
UNITED KINGDOM: Channel 4 News’s economics editor refers BI in his new book
Paul Mason, the award-winning economics editor of Channel 4 News, argues in favour of a basic income in his new book...
OPINION: Facebook’s Purchase of Oculus is the New Best Example of 21st Century Inequality and the Need for Unconditional Basic Income
The purchase of Oculus by Facebook for $2 billion is the new best example of the growing inequality inherent in 21st century capitalism – what Paul Mason describes as the The Fourth Wave. A few people just got really rich, while the thousands of people who helped build the company from nothing, through $2.5 million of crowdsourced capital and a thriving open-source developer community didn’t.