Social Justice Ireland, “Basic Income – Why and How in Difficult Economic Times: Financing a BI in Ireland,” Social Justice Ireland, September 14, 2012.
Kevin Milligan, “What’s the right policy tool to fight poverty?” Maclean’s, January 31, 2014.
[Josh Martin]
This article contains four detailed responses to an article written by Chris Armstrong about Sovereign Wealth Funds and global justice. The responses are by Oliviero Angeli, Andreas Follesdal, Angela Cummine, and Paul Segal. Some of the discussion involves the possibility of distributing oil revenue in the form of a dividend basic income guarantee.
The Editors, “Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and Global Justice: An Exchange,” Ethics & International Affairs, January 24, 2014.
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[Josh Martin]
Liu’s article focuses on Brazil’s “Bolsa Familia” program, which began 10 years ago and was essentially a conditional cash transfer to Brazilian families. Its success has left many optimistic about the future of (un)conditional cash transfers.
Alec Liu, “How Giving Cash Directly to the Poor Paid Off in Brazil,” Vice, January 2014.
[Josh Martin]
L. Randall Wray writes extensively on the idea of a job guarantee. Wray mentions the Basic Income Guarantee supports as among those claiming that job guarantee workers wouldn’t do anything useful. Wray respond by using the WPA of the New Deal as a major example of a successful job guarantee program.
L. Randall Wray, “Bop a Mole #2: JG Workers Will Do Nothing Useful, The JG Program Will Not Be Manageable,” Economonitor, January 7, 2014.
L. Randall Wray is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, NY.
