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Anna Dent, M.Sc., published a Master’s dissertation entitled “From Utopia to Implementation: How Basic Income has progressed from radical idea to legitimate policy solution.”
In it, Dent explores how “utopian and marginal” ideas such as basic income became part of the agendas for policy. The dissertation looks at UBI pilot projects including Finland, the Netherlands, Ontario, and Scotland.
Dent looked at policy change in progress through the dissertation’s “inductive, exploratory approach.” That is, she used case studies, documented analysis, and interviews. The four cases in the research have common aspects.
Many variables close together in time reinforce one another. Basic income was seen as a solution to policy failures, poverty, and unemployment. Each of the four cases – Finland, the Netherlands, Ontario, and Scotland – represent attempts to solve local contexts.
Dent’s research finds the pathway from obscurity to maturity of an idea, as it gains a mainstream positioning.
More information at:
Anna Dent, “From Utopia to Implementation: How Basic Income has progressed from radical idea to legitimate policy solution”, University of Bristol, September 2017
Anna Dent is a consultant working in employment and skills policy and implementation for the public and non-profit sectors. She has particular interests in low-income workers, the changing nature of work, and welfare benefits. She holds an MSc in Public Policy from the University of Bristol, and is a fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce). She can be contacted via twitter at @anna_b_dent
Is there a way to read this dissertation? You have a More information at:, but no link behind it.
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the heads-up. The article has been corrected/updated. The link for the Dissertation is noe there.
Best,
Have you considered th inclusion of each in money creation?
Why yes, I have.
Turns out, including each human equally in a globally standard process of money creation, according to a simple rule of inclusion for international banking, will establish a stable, sustainable, regenerative, inclusive, abundant, global economic system, with mathematical certainty.
Structurally including each human as equal financiers of our Shared global economic system also corrects the current foundational inequity, slavery.
Yes, State asserts ownership of us when issuing options to purchase our labor, and keeps our option fees. Compelling us to accept the options (money) in exchange for our labor, completes the definition of slavery, compelled servitude.
Isn’t that a violation of the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
How can the U.S. or any nation, rationalize structurally enslaving its citizens?
I guess they don’t, that’s probably why no one will discuss it, and Piketty leaves out the primary culprit
Wealth may borrow money into existence from Bank, and buy sovereign debt for a profit, so the $600 B debt service is actually our option fees, paid to Wealth, with our taxes…
..less than 2,000 pages, and accounts for the bulk of growing inequality