by Toru Yamamori | Feb 20, 2015 | Research
The Adam Smith institute, self-describing as being ‘at the forefront of making the case for free markets and a free society in the United Kingdom,’ recently drew attention to desirability of a Negative Income Tax, by reclaiming the 1970s experiments on it in USA.
Ben Southwood, “We’ve actually tried negative income taxes, and they seem to work ” Adam Smith Institute, November 6, 2014.
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 18, 2015 | Research
Malcolm Torry, who has long been serving as the director of the Citizen’s Income Trust, reflected a time he worked as welfare officer in late 1970s and how uncertain the situation of claimants were because of the nature of means tested benefit. He argues that BIG “will need to be high on the agenda of the Government enquiry into income maintenance.”
Malcolm Torry, “Basic Income – a benefits system for our society, today and tomorrow.” Discovers Society: Measured – Factual – Critical, Issue 13, September 30, 2014.
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 16, 2015 | News
Greens Japan (Japanese Green party) endorsed BIG from its beginning in 2012. On 31st October 2014, A new political organization ‘E-Future Association [e-mirai-no-kai]’ was launched in Kyoto. This organisation is a loose umbrella entity for coming local election in Kyoto 2015 by the Green Japan, the Kyoto Seikatsusha Network, and citizens who do not belong to any political organization.
‘E’, part of their name, means two things: first the sound means ‘good’ in Japanese, and second it connotes their intention to facilitate ‘online-activism.’ They call this umbrella entity ‘platform’ and explains this ‘platform’ strategy was learnt from experiences of early stage of Green Party in Germany.
On 8th November, ‘E-Future Association’ had a launching event, where Yoshiko Kada, former governor of Shiga prefecture gave a talk, and two candidates for local elections were announced.
Uiko Hasegawa, the co-president of Green Party Japan, is also the co-president of this association Her interview on Basic Income by the BI News team will be translated to this site shortly.
The setting up of the platform is covered by Japanese News Paper:
Language: Japanese. “e-mirai-no-kai launched for the local election in Kyoto” [政治団体「e未来の会」立ち上げ 京都で統一選候補推薦へ] Kyoto Shimbun News, October 31st, 2014.
The launching event is covered by Japanese News Paper:
Language: Japanese. “e-mirai-no-kai’s launching event in Kyoto”[左京で推薦 e未来の会が結成集会]
Kyoto Shimbun News, November 8th 2014
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 15, 2015 | News
In this post, ‘newsroom’ of the Mistbreaker news argues current strand to further automation urges us to consider BIG seriously.
Mistbreaker News, “Is Basic Income a Viable Concept in the Automated World”, November 13th, 2014.
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 11, 2015 | News
Jurgen De Wispelaere
Jurgen De Wispelaere, McGill University, “Basic Income: From Justice to Legitimacy”
Time and Date:Thursday, March 19, 2015, 5:00-6:30PM,
Venue: Morris Hall 102, Department of Philosophy, Minnesota State University Mankato.
For the organiser’s homepage, see:
https://www.ecet.mnsu.edu/philosophy/