by Josh Martin | Mar 25, 2015 | Research
Jeffery reviews (and has submitted this review to Political Studies Review) Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research by Widerquist, Anguera, Vanderborght, and de Wispelaere, which consolidates significant basic income research into 74 chapters split into the categories of freedom, justice, reciprocity and exploitation, feminism, economics, post-productivism, implementation, institutions, and politics. The book also includes the major critiques of basic income, mostly in feminism and economics, but Jeffery argues that as a whole the research has been too philosophical and not empirical enough.
David Jeffery, “Review: Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research”, What’s David Thinking?, 24 February 2015.
by Josh Martin | Mar 24, 2015 | News
Goar’s article tackles the current wave of basic income support in Canada over the past few years. Goar also mentions a proposal from Elaine Power for $20,000 per adult and $6,000 per child, costing $40 billion and requiring significant tax hikes.
Carol Goar, “National income floor for troubled times”, The Star, 8 March 2015.
by Josh Martin | Mar 23, 2015 | News
Orlando’s response to an article about President Obama vetoing the Keystone XL Pipeline bill encourages Canada to lead on climate change policy by implementing a carbon fee-and-dividend program that would take carbon fees and distribute them out to all citizens in a kind of basic income.
Cathy Orlando, “Canada can lead North America with Carbon Fee and Dividend”, The Windsor Star, 4 March 2015.
by Josh Martin | Mar 22, 2015 | News
Schneider’s piece excellently discusses the swaths of techies who are joining the basic income movement and their reasons for doing so. A basic income has the sort of simplicity heralded in the tech world, and it could free people up to spend more time tinkering and creating venture capital. Further, Schneider highlights the differing political arguments, from libertarians to progressives to Marxists.
Nathan Schneider, “Why the Tech Elite is Getting Behind Universal Basic Income”, P2P Foundation, 24 February 2015.
by Josh Martin | Mar 21, 2015 | Research
Irani writes a review of Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee’s book The Second Machine Age, in which they argue for a basic income as a solution to increasing automation and technology.
Lilly Irani, “Justice for ‘Data Janitors’”, Public Books, January 15, 2015.
