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 Taking Soundings Readers’ Meetings The date: Monday, November 16th (2015) The time:6PM The venue: Broadcasting Place AG10 (opposite the Fenton pub). The contact: https://www.takingsoundings.org.uk/contact-us/ The organiser's homepage said, 'Paul Mason’s...
Postcapitalism: Paul Mason Lecture The date: 18 November 2015 The time: 6.30-8pm The Venue: Old Theatre, LSE Campus, London. This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested. The contact: events@lse.ac.uk or...
On Wednesday 6 October 2021, the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, and Bristol Ideas are running their second virtual conference, ‘Is it time for UBI?’. The conference is free to attend. Leading thinkers, politicians and policymakers will come...
On this page, I attempt to keep an updated list of media appearances, big or small; basic income related or not; audio, video, or text; starting with the most recent. It's not exhaustive, but it's extensive. Interview by Enno Schmidt with Prof. Dr. Karl Widerquist on...
Tom Minogue Hastings. Credit to: Free Folk University Tom Minogue Hastings has been promoting Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the United States. He has been doing this with a popular website devoted to UBI, also appearing on the USBIG (U.S. Basic Income...
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.
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).
Post-Capitalism 2015: Paul Mason Talk and Film Screening of Boom Bust Boom with a Producer Q&A The date: 6 November 2015 The time: 18:00 - 21:00 The venue: Lecture Theatre A Rose Bowl Leeds Beckett University The contact: Katy Shaw (katy.shaw@leedsbeckett.ac.uk)...
Paul Mason, the award-winning economics editor of Channel 4 News, argues in favour of a basic income in his new book entitled PostCapitalism: A guide to our future, published in 30th July 2015 by Allen Lane, London. Neoliberalism is broken, Mason argues, and we...
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.