Gaura Rader, “Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and Some Tangentially Related Thoughts on Basic Income”

by Harry Pitts | Oct 17, 2014 | Research

Gaura Rader, “Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and Some Tangentially Related Thoughts on Basic Income”, The Socratic Diablogs, 2^nd October 2014

Stanislas Jourdan, “Guy Standing: The Precariat is growing angry”

by Harry Pitts | Oct 16, 2014 | Research

In this interview with Stanislas Jourdan, Guy Standing discusses how the basic income would remedy some of the insecurities experienced by the ‘precariat’.

The full article is available here:

Stanislas Jourdan, “Guy Standing: “The Precariat is growing angry”, Boiling Frogs, 8^th November 2012

David DeGraw, “The Coming Revolution: Evolutionary Leap or Descent Into Chaos and Violence?”

by Harry Pitts | Oct 15, 2014 | Research

In this excerpt from David DeGraw’s book, The Economics of Revolution, he suggests that the money the US government used to stimulate the economy through quantitative easing constituted a hand-out to the rich, and would have been better directed elsewhere, namely towards the provision of a basic income. He writes that, ‘If they truly wanted to stimulate the economy, they could have given the $4 trillion to every non-millionaire household, which would have been $40,000 per household, or they could have given 114,285,714 people $35,000 each. If we clawback QE from the ultra-rich, we can eliminate poverty and guarantee a Living Income to every person over the age of 18.

The full article is available here:

David DeGraw, “The Coming Revolution: Evolutionary Leap or Descent Into Chaos and Violence?”, The Economics of Revolution, 7^th October 2014