by Peter Knight | Mar 29, 2022 | News
Since 1986, BIEN has facilitated the global Basic Income debate. It is now looking forward to an exciting new three-year BIEN Hubs project, funded by the Mustardseed Trust, that will further expand and globalise its activity, and enable it to meet the many demands now being placed upon it by the increasingly lively Basic Income debate.
We are therefore looking for a paid Co-ordinator who will enable BIEN to meet its constitutional objectives and the objectives of the BIEN Hubs project. For further details, please click here.
If you would like to apply, please download, complete, and send the application form, which you can find here.
Closing date for applications: 12 noon London time (British Summer Time, UTC+1) on Tuesday the 19th of April 2022
Interviews will take place by Zoom on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of May 2022 during the period 11:00 to 14:00 London time (British Summer Time, UTC+1)
by Peter Knight | Mar 17, 2022 | Events, News
Dear all, we are pleased to invite you to the Workshop on the Catalan Universal Basic Income Pilot Project. It will take place on Thursday 31 March and Friday 1 April and will be accessible online at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCaLnI_z4O-Jw6P8yw8VcUsA.
It will host the discussion around the design pre-proposal of the Catalan Pilot Project (available at: www.rendabasica.gencat.cat) alongside other similar projects. So, various experts on the evaluation of public policies, members of other pilot projects and international scholars will be taking part.
Registration is required (only for those willing to attend in-person) should send an email to bgrafic@gmail.com. Bidirectional translation will be available and participation from the online and in-person public planned in each session. Click here to see the full program.
by Peter Knight | Mar 16, 2022 | Events, News
The University of Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies, together with the Berlin based think tank
polisphere are holding a digital conference on Wednesday 23.03.2022 chaired by Geoff Crocker,
author of ‘Basic Income and Sovereign Money‘ and editor of the web site www.ubi.org.
The focus of the conference is on economic development in East and South-East Asia, specifically on
three elements
Profiling current welfare systems
The constraint of debt/GDP ratios
The potential for basic income and debt-free sovereign money proposals
The conference is of specific interest to professional economists, including government economists,
academic economists, central bankers, politicians, economics journalists, aid agencies, and think tanks.
For the full program click here
Please register by clicking here.
by Peter Knight | Mar 10, 2022 | News
New publication! Basic Income and the Social Investment State: Towards Mutual Reinforcement? by Luke Martinelli and Yannick Vanderborght in European Journal of Social Security
https://doi.org/10.1177/13882627221085019
Is a social investment strategy compatible with the provision of an unconditional basic income? Prima facie, these two scenarios look like incongruent policy alternatives. While social investment – an influential policy paradigm at the level of the European Union – aims at promoting public services and maximum labor market participation, basic income is paid in cash and has sometimes been presented as the key component of a post-work future.
In this article, Luke Martinelli and Yannick Vanderborght explore this apparent incongruence and show that these two visions for welfare reform are not necessarily incompatible. Martinelli and Vanderborght even argue that they may share a number of substantial points of agreement, and indeed may reinforce one another according to a logic of institutional complementarity. In particular, they claim that a partial basic income (i.e., a modest unconditional income guarantee, whose amount would be insufficient if one lives alone) could enhance or complement the key functions of a social-democratic version of the social investment strategy. By doing so, Martinelli and Vanderborght conclude that the integration of a basic income into a social investment package could contribute to overcoming criticisms of the social investment agenda. At the same time, it could rescue basic income from the numerous critics who see it as an unrealistic policy proposal.
by Peter Knight | Mar 6, 2022 | Events, News
BIEN’s 2022 Congress will be held in Brisbane, Australia, from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2022. This will be a hybrid face to face and online event. The main face-to-face event will take place in Brisbane.BIEN 2022 hybrid.
Call for papers: Abstracts (250—300 words) are now due by Friday 1 April 2022; please click here for more information.
