by Toru Yamamori | Feb 9, 2016 | News
NHK, the Japanese National Broadcasting Agency, held a session entitled ‘A World without Work?’ with the World Economic Forum at Davos on 20th January , which it will broadcast the session on its national satellite channel at 11am on 11th February.
In the session, anchor Hiroko Kuniya raised a question on a basic income. Some participants, including a Nobel Laureate Sir Christopher Pissarides, show their support for the idea.
The information on the TV program is currently at: https://www4.nhk.or.jp/bs1sp/
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 8, 2016 | News
Wisconsin Public Radio, a local radio in the U.S., featured UBI in its program called ‘The Kathleen Dunn Show’. The main guest was Judith Shulevitz, a journalist who recently wrote a column on feminism and UBI at the New York times. The voices from listeners on the topic were also on air. The 50 minute program can be listened to online here at:
https://www.wpr.org/feminist-case-universal-basic-income
(Last accessed on 25th January)
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 7, 2016 | News
Andrew White, ‘Could a basic income solve the biggest challenge of the digital economy?‘, The Guardian, 25th January 2016.
Andrew White, associate professor of creative industries and digital media at the University of Nottingham, argues that ‘those gathering at Davos would be remiss to not consider a basic income as a credible policy response to contemporary anxieties about our role in the modern workplace’
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by Toru Yamamori | Feb 6, 2016 | News
Sir Christopher Pissarides, a Nobel prize-winning economist and the Regius professor at London School of Economics, expressed his support for a universal basic income, at one of the debate sessions of the World Economic Forum at Davos, on 20th January 2016.
Professor Pissarides said:
The pie is growing bigger, there is no guarantee that everyone will benefit if we leave the market alone. In fact, if anything, we think that not everyone will benefit if we leave the market alone. So we need to develop a new system of redistributions, new policies that will redistribute inevitably from those that the market would have rewarded in favour of those that the market would have left behind. Now, having a universal minimum income is one of those ways, in fact, it is one I am very much in favour of, as long as we know how to apply it without taking away incentive to work at the lower end of the market.
[Transcribed by Toru Yamamori from the video. Any inaccuracy belongs to him.]
The session ‘A World Without Work’ was held in partnership with NHK, the Japanese national broadcasting agency. In addition to Pissarides, participants included:
- Erik Brynjolfsson, Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, MIT – Sloan School of Management, USA
- Yoshiaki Fujimori, President and Chief Executive Officer, LIXIL Group, Japan
- Dileep George, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Vicarious, USA
- Troels Lund Poulsen, Minister for Business and Growth of Denmark
The session was moderated by Hiroko Kuniya, an anchor for NHK and other speakers also discussed basic income. You can watch the highlights form the panel here:
The full session can be viewed online:
“World Economic Forum Annual Meeting: A World Without Work?” World Economic Forum. 20 January 2016.
“Davos 2016 – A World Without Work?” YouTube, 20 January 2016.
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 4, 2016 | News
David Jenkins, ‘Is It Time For London To Try Basic Income?‘, Londonist, 31st December 2015.
David Jenkins, a political theorist, argues that ‘[a]n idea like Unconditional Basic Income might seem radical, but its growing popularity represents the recognition that the old strategies are no longer up to muster and that serious, fresh new thinking for the future is required’.
